Alameda County Biographies

DANIEL M. TEETER

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Pope County, Arkansas, September 5, 1838, and there farmed and 
worked in his father�s saw-mill until he attained the age of nineteen years.  On 
the 7th day of May, 1857, he started for California, by way of the plains, with 
ox-teams, three wagons, and a drove of cattle (fourteen hundred head), and, 
after a long and tedious march of nearly four months, arrived at Salt Lake City; 
and, after enduring many hardships during the winter, the journey was resumed.  
On the 13th day of April, he, with twenty-seven others, started afoot for 
California, a distance of eight hundred miles; and after the fatigues and 
hardships met � such as crossing large bodies of snow, and being scantily clad, 
and exposed to the wild savages, and living on flour alone � he ultimately 
arrived at Danville, Contra Costa County, in June, 1858.  Here he found 
employment and remained until October, 1861, when he moved to Alameda County, 
engaged in farming for three years on a portion of the Dougherty Ranch, and then 
moved to the Bernal Ranch, near Pleasanton, where he remained two years.  Having 
been engaged in farming and teaming, he was entirely uneducated, and so he then 
took an eighteen months� course at the college at Alamo, Contra Costa County, 
after which he engaged in teaming and freighting to Washoe for two years with 
moderate success.  Subsequently he leased a farm on the Bernal Estate, which he 
occupied until 1874, in which year he purchased his present place, comprising 
two hundred and fifty acres, situated in close proximity to the town of 
Livermore, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.  Married at 
San Leandro, Alameda County, June 20, 1879, Miss Caroline E. Arnett, a native of 
Missouri, which was a happy and prosperous union until the 15th day of December, 
1882, when, after a long and wasting attack of consumption, she departed from 
this world, leaving to mourn her loss himself and two children, a boy and a 
girl, named Franklin and Flora Elizabeth.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 985