Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland,
OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a40.

DAVIS WOOTON

	a farmer by occupation, lives on Dry creek, eleven miles by road a little
north from east of the city of Walla Walla.  Including a railroad claim he has
400 acres of land of which 240 are enclosed and eighty of it timber.  The
improvements around his house can be seen by referring to a view of the same in
this work.  There is a small orchard of a variety of fruits; 100 acres of the
farm are under cultivation, and in 1874 twenty acres of it yielded fifty bushels
of wheat to the acre.  To his farming he adds the raising, in limited numbers,
of different kinds of stock, such as cattle, horses, hogs etc.  Hardin Wooton,
the father of Davis, was a native of Kentucky, where he was born in 1806, and
married in that State Miss Mary McGee, in 1827.  Davis Wooton was born June 23,
1832, in Clay county, Kentucky, and removed with his parents to Johnson county,
Missouri, in 1837.  In 1854 the subject of this sketch left his home in Johnson
county and crossed the plains with en ox team to California, where he lived in
Sonoma county on Russian river, for about five years.  In 1859 he went to
Yamhill county, Oregon, and remained there until 1861, when he came to
Washington Territory and Walla Walla county.  In 1872 he settled on the ranch
where he now lives.  In September, 1876, he was married to Mrs. Annie, widow of
John Largent, the daughter of Mica Mathena, now deceased.  Mrs. Wooton's father
was also a native of Kentucky, where he was born in 1809.  He was married to
Miss Mahala Pennington, of Illinois, in 1828, where they lived until 1852.  This
last year they crossed the plains to Oregon.  Mrs. Largent was born in 1842, was
first married in 1857; came in 1871 with her husband to Walla Walla, where he
died in 1874, leaving her a widow with four girls and two boys, whose names and
dates of birth are as follows: Jane, September 14, 1860; Richard E., June 22,
1863; Idelia, March 12, 1865; Rose E., September 6, 1866; William D., October
26, 1868; Mary M., July 8, 1870.  Mr. Wooton's children are: Hardin C., born
January 2, 1879; Arthur, born September 16, 1880; infant child, born February 7,
1882. In politics Mr. Wooton is a Democrat, but is not an active politician and
never seeks preferment in this line.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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