DAVID RAITT. Born near Ashland, Ohio, April 23, 1835. He had a good common school education and was regarded as a champion speller in old "spelling-school" times. He pursued higher educational work at the Academies at Ashland and Hayesville, Ohio, and finally commenced college studies ab Oberlin; bu the gold fever set in and he soon abandoned college life. At the age of eighteen he went to his brother, Marshall, in California, became interested in the mining business, and has since devoted his whole life to prospecting for gold and silver, and in mining enterprsies. he is now located in South Dakota, near Deadwood. His post-office address is Central City, South Dakota.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
DAVID RAITT. Born near Ashland, Ohio, April 23, 1835. He had a good common school education and was regarded as a champion speller in old "spelling-school" times. He pursued higher educational work at the Academies at Ashland and Hayesville, Ohio, and finally commenced college studies ab Oberlin; bu the gold fever set in and he soon abandoned college life. At the age of eighteen he went to his brother, Marshall, in California, became interested in the mining business, and has since devoted his whole life to prospecting for gold and silver, and in mining enterprsies. he is now located in South Dakota, near Deadwood. His post-office address is Central City, South Dakota.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
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