Amador County Biographies

MERWIN LEACH 

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Was born in Franklin county, Vermont, in 1837, and came across the plains in 1860, bringing up in 
Amador City, where he lived for ten years. In 1870 he went to Plymouth, residing there for one 
year; thence to Church Union mines in El Dorado county for two years; thence to Kelsey, where he 
remained until April 18. 1881, when he returned to Plymouth, and purchased a half-interest in the 
store of Thompson Davis, with whom he has since remained. He is not married at the time of this 
writing. 

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