California Biographies Shively, D. C. Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Shively, D. C. Is a native of Marshall county, Indiana, and was born February 16, 1851. Here he resided till 1864, when his parents moved on a farm in Muscatine county, Iowa; thence, in 1870, to Dodge county, Nebraska; but after one year's residence returned east, settling in Branch county, Michigan, where he engaged in mercantile business six years. From this county Mr. Shively came to California in January, 1877, making Santa Rosa his home, and was engaged in business with W. B. Shively for one year, after which he went to Healdsburg, doing business on his own account, but returned to Santa Rosa after eleven months, engaging in general mercantile business with Mr. Fox, under the style of Shively and Fox. Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, Alley, Bowen & Co. 1880