Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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JOHN I. DAVISSON, 
 
a grain and fruit raiser residing two miles west of Compton, is a pioneer of 
1850. He was born in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in 1832, and is a son of Elias 
and Sarah (Post) Davisson, natives of Ohio and Virginia respectively, and of 
English origin. They were early settlers of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and 
subsequently
removed to Holt County, Missouri, where the residue of their lives was spent. 
The former died in 1849 and the latter in 1850. They reared a family of eight 
children, the subject of this sketch being the youngest of the three boys. 
Leaving his home in Holt County, Missouri, in April, 1850, he set out for the 
Pacific Coast, coming overland, and arriving in Milwaukee, Oregon, October 18, 
of the same year. After camping there for three months he, in company with 
eighteen men, went to Yerka, Siskiyou County, where he engaged in mining for one 
year. After leaving the mines Mr. Davisson was variously employed; he purchased 
mules and followed "packing" for about four years, then moved to Saline County, 
next to the British Possessions, and still later to Ventura County, where he 
farmed till 1869. In that year he was married to Louisa Haver, of the State of 
Arkansas, and a daughter of Wilson Haver, a Methodist minister who came to 
California in 1862 and died in Eastern Oregon in 1888. Mr. Davisson purchased 
forty acres of land when he first came to Los Angeles County and has to-day a 
well-improved, productive farm. Mr. and Mrs. Davisson, with their two oldest 
children, Cora N. and Della M., are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Their other children are: Abbie, Nettie, and Ray.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 730
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler