Civil War Veterans of Monterey County, California.

Researched and Compiled by : 
Timothy P. Reese, PCC of Salinas , CA. & Robert L. Nelson ,PCC. of Santa Cruz.CA. 
Both members of the “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. 
Department of California & Pacific. Camp Abraham Lincoln # 10.  
The Reese-Nelson CWV-MC Data Base


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DAVIS, DAVID D.   (1844-1929)   Pacific Grove, El Carmelo Cemetery
(History of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties)

David D. Davis
  David D. Davis is a distinguished and honored citizen of Pacific Grove, now living retired 
at 195 Monterey street.  A native of Wisconsin, he was born ad Delafield, Waukesha county, 
August 3, 1844, first seeing the light in a rude, if not uncomfortable log cabin, characteristic 
of those early days.  He grew up in a wild, unsettled country, and attended school in a log 
building, so that when he recalls the past, he can conjure up many pictures in marked 
contrast to those of today.
  In 1862 when Civil war rent the country, he enlisted for a year as a soldier in the Army of 
the West, joining the Thirty-fourth Wisconsin Infantry, and doing his “bit” to help save the
 Union.  IN 1863, having been mustered out, he reenlisted, this time as a member of the 
Fifty-second Wisconsin Infantry, and rendered valiant service at Nashville, Memphis, Columbus, 
Kentucky, and in various engagements elsewhere.  After the assassination of President Lincoln 
his regiment guarded the body of the President as it was taken through Chicago for burial at 
his old home in Springfield, Illinois.  He was at Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin, for a while 
and was mustered out at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee.
  When the war was over, Mr. Davis retired to his father’s farm in Wisconsin, and later bought
 eighty acres in that state, to which he added until he had two hundred and thirty acres.  He 
raised wheat, oats, corn, rye buckwheat and vegetables and as always successful in his farming, 
never having a crop failure.  He raised such fine wheat that it weighed from sixty to sixty-two 
pounds to the bushel at the test, and he came to be a fine judge of soil and crop conditions.  
In all that section of Wisconsin, long so famous for its agricultural pursuits, few, if any, farmers 
excelled Mr. Davis in his varied operations.  He owned a number of farms in his native state, 
including the famous Wild Rose farm of one hundred and twenty acres.  At length selling out at 
a profit, he removed to Waupaca, Wisconsin, where he resided until 1908, when he came to
 California.  For a while he resided in Auburn, Placer county, and little by little readjusted himself 
to the new ways of the Pacific slope.  Buying a small ranch of five acres, he engaged in fruit-raising 
but sold out in 1916 to remove to Pacific Grove.
  In Wisconsin Mr. Davis was married to Miss Ella C. Peterson, a native of Denmark, by whom he 
has had four children:  Mrs. Aileen Christianson, of San Luis Obispo; Mrs. Norman Thompson of 
Los Angeles;  Mrs. Ruth Shearer, of San Francisco, and Irvin, of Sacramento.  Mr. Davis is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal church, of Pacific Grove, and a member of the Lucius Fairchild Post, 
No. 179, G.A.R.  In 1921 he attended the Grand Encampment at Columbus, Ohio, and also paid a 
visit to his old home in Wisconsin  His has been an active and useful life, crowned by a substantial 
measure of success, and he well merits the high esteem uniformly accorded him.