California Biographies, Alameda County 
Hiram Davis

History of Alameda County, California
Publisher: Oakland, Calif : M. W. Wood

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Hiram Davis.�The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work,
was born in Genesee County, New York, March 2, 1830. At the age of nine years
he was taken by his parents to Michigan, and in the following year accompanied his
uncle, Samuel Holmes, to Hancock County, Illinois, where he received his schooling
and resided until 1847. In that year he emigrated with a company of Mormons to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, and thence to Missouri, finally, in the spring of 1848, going to
Salt Lake City, where he dwelt until 1849. Late in the fall of that year he started
for California, and on arrival commenced mining in Mariposa County, which he continued
until 1850, when he came to Alameda County, and in 1854 purchased a farm
near Alvarado, on which he resided until 1865, when he went to the Eastern
States, but after a visit of eight months, returned and settled on Dry Creek, where he
lived until the year 1870, at which time he moved to his present ranch. Mr. Davis
owns one hundred and forty-three acres of land, and is engaged in general farming.
He married in Michigan in 1856, Miss Martha Fairfield, a native of that State, and
has nine surviving children, viz.: Martha A., born April 6, 1858; William Lee, born
January 6, 1861; Mary L, born October 8, 1862; Sarah J., born June 18, 1864; Clara
L., born November 7, 1871; Harriet R., born March 6, 1876; Edward R., born July
8, 1868; Joseph M., born July 18, 1872; Frederick H., born December 15, 1879.