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 LEVIN, DAVID. Was born in Germany, November IS, 1853. When he was about eight years of age he, with his parents, came to New York, where they remained about eight months. The family then proceeded to California, coming by way of Panama. The subject of this sketch received his education at the South Cosmopolitan School in San Francisco. In 1868 he engaged in the hat trade which he followed until 1878, when he came to Lakeport, and engaged with Mr. Aaron Levy in the general merchandise business, where he has since resided. He was married April 29, 1878, to Miss Minnie Levy, and their children are Golda and Ellis.