Amador County Biographies

THOMPSON DAVIS 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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"Was born in the State of Missouri in 1833. At the age of twenty years he emigrated to California,  
settling at Placerville (Hangtown), in El Dorado county, where he lived for two years, when he came to 
Volcano, where he mined for one year; thence to Oleta where he lived for two years; thence to Upper 
Rancheria, where he also mined for two years. Placer mining becoming rather precarious, he tried 
farming in Buckeye valley, near Carbondale, for ten years. He then engaged in the mercantile business 
near Drytown for eight years. In 1879 he removed to Plymouth, where he erected a store and enlarged 
his business. He has since made this place his home. He was married in 1866 to Miss Maria A. Davies. 
They have four children. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.