Sacramento County
Biographies
THOMAS N. DAVIS
THOMAS N. DAVIS.--A California rancher
who is an enthusiastic native son, and of whom, because of his progressive
methods, and scientific results, Sacramento County
may well be proud, is Thomas N. Davis, who was born on the old Davis
ranch near Hicksville, five miles northeast of that
town, on February 13, 1871. His father,
David Davis, came out to California
in 1852 and made an interesting record as a pioneer, details of which may be
found in the story of E. A. Riley, found elsewhere in this volume, acquiring,
previous to his death, 1,120 acres. At
first, he engaged in the raising of sheep and cattle, and he also had
considerable range land in the mountains; and in later life he took up general
farming.
Thomas
N. Davis, attended the district school that had been named after his father; and when twenty-four years old, he started farming for
himself. He married at Sacramento,
on July 2, 1894, Miss Georgia Alida Spring, a native
of Sacramento County
and the daughter of Elias W. and Christiana (Long) Spring. Her father was a school teacher, and also an
early settler of Sacramento County;
and he conducted schools in several counties in central California. Miss Spring completed the studies required at
the Sacramento high school, and then attended the state normal school of San
Jose, after which she taught for some three seasons before her marriage. Her father died at the age of fifty-eight,
and her mother at the age of sixty-nine.
Elias W. Spring is a brother of Mrs. Davis.
Mr.
Davis has operated the Davis ranch continuously since his marriage, with the
exception of one year, which he spent at Eureka, in Humboldt County; and he has
160 of the original Davis acres, upon which he built a home, where he as reared
two sons, Thomas N., Jr., and Francis Murray, who assist him in grain
farming. He leases about 1,500 acres
devoted to grain-raising purposes, and he employs eighteen head of horses and
one tractor. He served for years as
clerk of the board of trustees of the Davis
school district. In national political
affairs, he votes regardless of party lines.
Transcribed
Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 333-334. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Joyce Rugeroni.