Sacramento County Biographies

L. R. DAVIS

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 277.

	farmer, dairyman and stock-raiser; lives five miles south of 
Sacramento, his Post Office; owns 160 acres of land, valued, with improvements, 
at about $5,000; born in Virginia in 1825; parents moved to Kentucky when he was 
quite young; he engaged in farming until 1850, then came to California across 
the plains; followed mining in Yuba County, on the Feather River, for about one 
year, then moved to this county, where he has since been engaged in farming, 
stock-raising and dairying. Married Miss M. L. Lonnon, a native of Kentucky, in 
1870; they have three sons and one daughter. Mr. Davis has held the office of 
Road Overseer. A view of his place is given elsewhere. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.