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 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


D. EMERSON.  Was born in Richland County, Ohio, February 10, 1823. In 1833 he, with his parents, 
moved to Steuben County, Indiana. In 1843 he went to Wisconsin, where he worked in a saw-mill for 
three years. In 1846 he returned to Cincinnati; thence to Memphis, where he spent the winter 
chopping wood. He then returned to Wisconsin, and remained till 1849, when he came to California. 
He mined till the fall of 1850, when he came to Sacramento and began buying beef cattle, which he 
took to the mines. In the fall of 1857 he came to Napa County, and settled two. miles above Calistoga. 
In 1865 he took a trip to Mexico, and thence to Walla Walla, where he remained fourteen months. He 
then returned to Napa Valley, and purchased a fifth interest in the Pope Valley grant. In 1866 he 
returned to his old home in Indiana, via Panama, and spent the winter. In the spring of 1867 he 
returned to California overland, and has since resided in Napa County, being an extensive farmer. He 
was married February 8,1857, to Miss Lizzie Deering. Their children are Eugene, born February 28, 
1859, and Mary Emma, born November 7, 1870.