Plumas County Biographies

Charles H. Davis

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

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This gentleman was born November 22, 1852 at Greenport, Long Island. When he was 
two years of age his mother died, and he lived with his grandparents for three 
years, and six years with J. C. Cole of Duen, Connecticut. At the age of eleven 
he started for California, via the Horn, to join his father in San Francisco, 
who had come to the coast in 1855. Charles reached his destination in April, 
1865. In the same year he began to learn the butcher’s trade, which he worked at 
two years. Since that time he has lived in many parts of the state. In the 
spring of 1879 he made his home in Randolph, Sierra county, where he owns a 
comfortable house, and is at present engaged in logging in the vicinity. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. - Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 273-274