California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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ALEXANDER, DAVID. Was born in Pennsylvania March 15, 1830. When he was eighteen years of age he 
went to Ohio and engaged in the milling business for four years. He then returned to his native State 
and engaged in farming until 1855, when he came to California via Nicaragua, arriving at San Francisco 
May 10th. He engaged in mining, which he followed at different places until 1863, when he went to 
Humboldt County and followed staging for one year. A year was then spent in Nevada, engaged in 
prospecting. In 1865 he returned to Nevada County, California, and followed mining for eleven years. 
In 1876 he came to Lake County and leased the Bartlett Springs property, which he conducted until the 
spring of 1881. He was married December 30, 1866, to Mrs. Pauline Twiggs, a native of Missouri. She 
has, by her first marriage, one son, Milton E.