Plumas County Biographies

Aaron Davis

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
This gentleman was born at Newark, New Jersey, May 24, 1813. When six years of 
age he accompanied his parents to Mount Vernon, Ohio, which he made his home for 
sixteen years. He then went to Cincinnati, and was engaged for three years in 
mercantile pursuits, being also one of the contractors of the Illinois and 
Michigan canal, commenced in 1836. In 1840 he went to Grant county, Wisconsin, 
and was occupied in merchandising and smelting lead, serving as deputy sheriff 
for two years. In 1849 he came overland to California, via the Lassen trail, 
arriving in Marysville September 21, 1849. He spent four years in mining, and 
then settled in Nevada county, where he engaged in merchandising, milling, and 
mining. In 1867 he removed to Sierra valley, and bought a ranch of 320 acres one 
mile west of Sierraville, on which he has since lived. Mr. Davis was a delegate 
to the state republican convention in 1872, and was elected a supervisor from 
the third district, in 1879. He was married December 25, 1838, at Ottawa, 
Illinois, to Miss Emma O�Hara, daughter of Captain William O�Hara of the British 
army. Their children are Morris W., born May 10, 1843; Wood B., May 21, 1847; 
Thornton E, July 18, 1855; George G., January 21, 1858; Emma N., December 3, 
1859; Aaron Davis, Jr., June 2, 1862. Morris married Grace Cullen in 1864, and 
is living in San Francisco; Emma was wedded to H. O. Nichols of Sierraville, in 
June, 1880.
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 270