Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Long, David H. 1868 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

DAVID H. LONG

    To devote the years of maturity to agricultural pursuits in the locality
familiar to his earliest recollections and to achieve a gratifying degree of
success through his own painstaking efforts—such has been the experience of
David H. Long, and such the results of his sagacious labors. The family of which
he is a member has been represented in the community for little less than
one-half century and its members of the earlier generation as well as the
present have been helpful in the development of the land, contributing their
quota toward the scientific cultivation of the soil and proving themselves to be
citizens of the highest type. Mention of the family appears elsewhere in the
sketch of James Thomas Long, a pioneer rancher of this district and an older
brother of the gentleman above named.

    The well-improved farm of eighty acres owned and occupied by David H. Long
adjoins the old homestead where he was born December 5, 1868, and where he
learned the rudiments of general farming, as well as the care of stock and many
other details of agriculture. Assisting at home during the vacations, he
attended the public schools at other times and after he had completed the
studies of these institutions he spent one year at Pacific Methodist College at
Santa Rosa. On his return to the old homestead he became an active assistant in
the tilling of the soil. September 16, 1891, he was united in marriage with Miss
Clara L. Morgan, who was born on her father's homestead near Blacks, Yolo
county. Losing her mother by death in her childhood years, she was taken to
Oregon by an aunt and there received her education, as well as a practical
training in housewifely duties. She was the daughter of Moses W. and Mary A.
(Neal) Morgan, natives of Trumbull county, Ohio. The father came to California
in 1853 by way of Panama with his brother, Emory B. Morgan, who taught the first
school in Cacheville. Mrs. Long's grandfather, Ezra Morgan, came to California
in 1851 and took up land at Cacheville. In 1867 her father purchased the farm on
which she is now living and where he and his wife died. Since their marriage the
young couple have lived on the Morgan ranch, of which they now own eighty acres.
In addition Mr. Long rents four hundred acres, which he has under cultivation
principally to wheat, barley and alfalfa. On his home place he has erected a
neat farm house, a substantial barn and other necessary buildings. Fences have
been constructed for the division of the fields and the pasturage of the stock.
Many shade trees have been planted, and these add much to the attractive
appearance of the grounds. All in all, the property bespeaks the care and
cultivation of an energetic and capable farmer, and the impression thus given is
deepened by a study of the well-kept cattle, hogs, sheep and horses. The
pleasant home is brightened by the presence of five children, Mary Louise,
Luella, David Harold, Margaret and Charles Sidney, all of whom are being given
the best advantages within the means of the parents. Especially has it been the
aim of Mr. Long to give his children a good education and this interest in their
intellectual advancement and in the welfare of other children in the
neighborhood led him to accept the office of school director, in which capacity
he served with efficiency. In addition he now fills the office of district
clerk. Other offices he refuses to hold, for his tastes do not incline him
toward politics and, indeed, he takes no part in local elections aside from
supporting the candidates of the Democratic party. With his family he attends
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Blacks and contributes to its support and to
its missionary movements.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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