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On November 20, 1910, Capt. Ludwig Anderson died at Pacheco af- ter more than half a century of activity as a business men of the county. He was eighty-five years and three months old at the time of his death. He was born in Denmark, August 26, 1825, went to sea when sixteen years old, later sailed to the United States, arriving in New York in 1848, and in 1850 came via the Horn to California on the Oregon, the vessel that brought news to California that she had been admitted to Statehood. He engaged in the coasting trade until 1860, and then engaged in the lum- ber business in Pacheco. He established the firm of L. Anderson & Com- pany there, and later established the business in Martinez. In 1858 he
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married Honora Troy in San Francisco, and they had seven children. He was survived by his widow and six children.
Smith Ashley was born in Ohio in 1822, came to California in 1853 via Nicaragua, and in 1861 located at Pacheco, where he was a farmer. In 1846 he married Sally L. Call.
April 8, 1907 .- A. E. Austin, a pioneer of 1886 in Contra Costa Coun- ty, died aged eighty years. He was a blacksmith and wheelwright. His first shop in Martinez was on Escobar Street, where Johnson's Machine Shop is located.
F. S. Bacon was born in Massachusetts in 1833. He came to Cali- fornia across the plains in 1852, and the next year came to Bay Point and pre-empted land. In 1860 he came to Pacheco, but soon moved to Con- cord, where he was the first merchant.
January 7, 1891 .- Samuel Bacon, born in Barre, Mass., died in Con- cord, aged fifty-seven years. He was a pioneer of 1852. He served as postmaster of Pacheco and was one of the original settlers of Concord, where he was in the mercantile business.
On July 6, 1907, A. A. Bailey died at Vine Hill. He was born in Wisconsin in 1844 and came to California in 1874. In 1877 he came to Contra Costa County as principal of the Antioch schools, and he was elected superintendent of schools in 1879, and also for the succeeding four terms. In 1906 he took up the real estate business in Richmond. He was a Democrat.
Died, in Martinez, December 4, 1891, M. H. Bailhache, a native of Illinois, aged fifty-three years. He was an old and highly respected citi- zen of this county, where he resided since 1870, and was a member of General Canby Post, G. A. R. He was serving as postmaster.
H. W. Baker, a pioneer of the county, died at his home in Antioch on December 17, 1898. He was foreman for L. L. Robinson of the Los Médanos Grant, and was a member of the Odd Fellows.
Died, December 20, 1922, J. Rio Baker, aged seventy-three years. He was born in Utah and came to California in the early seventies and settled at Antioch. He was in the drug business, served as postmaster, and was appointed county treasurer to succeed L. E. Buttner, deceased. He was a Mason.
John Baker was born in Pennsylvania in 1819, crossed the plains with oxen in 1853, and located on a ranch near Walnut Creek. In 1848 he married Martha Ann Glass; they had four children.
Robert O. Baldwin passed away on April 26, 1908, at his home near Danville, aged eighty years, just one month and one day after the cele- bration of his Golden Wedding anniversary. He was born in Ohio in 1828 and in 1850 came to California, crossing the plains with mule-teams and pack-animals. In 1852 he came to Contra Costa County to visit and was so impressed that he remained, locating on a ranch one and a half miles southeast of Danville. He married Mary Cox in 1858, and for fifty years lived in the same house. Five of their six children survived him.
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Died, in Martinez, July 21, 1891, Matthew R. Barber, aged seventy- five years. Matthew Barber was born in Ohio in 1815, crossed the plains in 1849, worked in the redwoods near San Antonio (then in Contra Costa County ), and while there wrote the tickets for the first election for of- ficers of the new county. Later he built several of the first houses in Martinez, and then farmed two miles from town. He located perma- nently in the county in 1852, and served as public administrator four terms. He married Orpha Bean in 1837, and had five children.
October 12, 1912 .- J. P. Bernard, a pioneer, died in Martinez, aged seventy-six years. He was born in Massachusetts in 1836, and came to California as a young man. He had made his home in Martinez for twen- ty-seven years.
Benjamin F. Beebe was born in New York in 1830, came via Panama to California in 1863, located in Contra Costa County and farmed near Concord. He served on the board of supervisors. In 1869 he married Fannie C. Kuble, and they had two children. His death occurred in May, 1901.
Died, on January 27, 1913, William F. Belding, pioneer merchant of San Pablo, president of the Bank of Richmond, and a member of the board of education. He left a widow, Mrs. Emma Belding; a son, W. F. Jr., and two grandchildren. Mr. Belding was a prominent Mason.
January 16, 1926 .- Mrs. Virginia Belding, widow of William F. Belding, passed away at her home in San Pablo Tuesday morning. She was the sole survivor of a pioneer family and had resided in San Pablo and San Francisco since 1860.
C. M. Belshaw and wife were killed in an automobile accident No- vember 23, 1919, when their Packard touring car plunged over a 400- foot cliff between Rockaway and Moss Beaches on the Pedro Mountain grade. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sherwood of Seattle, who were with them, were also killed. C. M. Belshaw was one of the best-known men in Con- tra Costa County. He was born in Amador County in 1861, was reared in San Francisco, graduated from Harvard in 1883, and was elected to the Assembly on the Republican ticket in 1894. He was an Elk and a Native Son.
January 23, 1926 .- John Bendixon, at one time public administrator of Contra Costa County, died at the Martinez hospital Friday morning, following an illness extending over a period of two years. He was born in Denmark and was eighty-three years old.
May 20, 1905 .- Seeley James Bennett, one of the pioneer stage men of the county, died last Sunday, aged seventy-one years. He was born in Ohio in 1833 and came to California via the Gulf of Mexico in 1859. Coming to Contra Costa County, he engaged in the livery business in Pacheco, in 1860. In 1861 he started and operated the first stage line from Pacheco to the Mount Diablo coal mines. In 1862 he came to Martinez, and that year he married Jane Hough. They had one son. Mr. Bennett was a Mason.
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Mrs. Harriet A. Bent died on February 19, 1899, aged eighty years. She was born in Vermont in 1819, was married in 1838, and in the early fifties came to California. She was one of the first white settlers in Al- hambra Valley.
Mathias Berlingen was born in Prussia in 1830, came to America in 1861 and to California via Panama in 1863, and in 1867 located in Con- tra Costa County at Point of Timber. In 1874 he married Else K. Schnoor.
Died, in Martinez, February 2, 1888, Dr. Hermann Bernett, a native of Germany, aged fifty years.
Simon Blum, pioneer merchant prince of Contra Costa County, died Saturday evening, November 30, 1913, at his residence in Martinez at the age of seventy-nine years. He was born in the North of France in 1834; in 1850 he left for New York; and in 1852 he came via the Isthmus on the steamship Uncle Sam, boarding the Sierra-Nevada for San Francisco and arriving there in February, 1853. In 1854 he removed to Martinez, where he bought the mercantile business of Captain Fogg, and thereafter this was his home and the scene of his operations. He became a very prominent citizen, and wealthy. His brother, Gabriel Blum, was asso- ciated with him. He married Leontine Alexandre in 1861, and they had five children. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. In 1911 Mr. and Mrs. Blum celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary.
Henry Blume was born in Prussia in 1837, came to California in 1856, located at Pinole in Contra Costa County in 1859, and engaged in ranch- ing. In 1867 he married Frederika Gohunning, and they had five sons.
Joshua Bollinger was born in Missouri in 1810, crossed the plains in 1850 with ox-teams, and in 1855 came to Contra Costa County and farmed at Bollinger's Canyon.
Mrs. Sophie Boone, a resident of San Ramon Valley for years, and prominent in the Danville section, died January 16, 1921, aged seventy- two years.
Mrs. Boots, one of the first school teachers in Martinez, died in the spring of 1918, at her home in Niles, Alameda County, aged ninety-nine.
Mrs. Elitha Boss, who came to Contra Costa County in 1851 and for sixty-six years made her home here, died in Pleasant Hill on May 24, 1917. She was the mother of six children.
On May 21, 1923, at her home in Martinez, occurred the death of Mrs. Amelia M. Bowen at the age of eighty-three years. She was born in Mexico, and came to California in 1850 and to this county in 1856, since which time she had lived in Martinez. She was survived by three sons.
John D. Bowen, supervisor of the fourth district, residing at Stewarts- ville, died on September 7, 1885, aged sixty-six years. He was a native of South Wales, born April 9, 1819.
February 28, 1920 .- Joseph Boyd, a pioneer of Concord, died of injuries received when an explosion occurred while he was welding a large piece of pipe taken from a water-pump. He was a native of Canada and
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had been a resident of Concord for thirty years, where he owned con- siderable property and operated a blacksmith and machine shop.
Died, February 26, 1915, at his home in Alhambra Valley, Fred Brackman, aged forty-nine years. He was born in Ygnacio Valley, but for thirty years prior to his death was a resident of Alhambra Valley. He left a widow and four sons.
Thomas W. Bradley was born in Tennessee in 1818 and crossed the plains in 1843 under the guidance of Joel Walker. He served in the Bear Flag War under Captain Grigsby. In 1849 he came to this county and farmed near Lafayette. He married Rebecca Allen in 1846, and had nine children.
Died, in Martinez, December 25, 1895, Frank D. Briare, a native of New York, aged seventy-five years. He was born March 22, 1820, came West in 1850, and in 1852 came to Martinez. For years he was in the restaurant business.
Mrs. Mary Ford Briare, wife of Frank D. Briare, died in Martinez, . June 26, 1885. She was born in Ireland in 1834, and came to Boston in 1849, and arrived in California the day of the Terry and Broderick duel. Since 1859 she had lived in this county.
January 27, 1906 .- The death of Louisa Briones, the oldest native daughter in the State, occurred at Oakland last Tuesday. She was born in the old Mexican garrison in San Francisco, June 21, 1816, a daughter of Joaquin Moraga. In 1844 she married Ramon Briones, of Briones Val- ley, Contra Costa County.
John L. Bromley was born in Maryland in 1820, served in the Mexi- can War, came to San Francisco in 1852, and in 1853 located on Mount Diablo Ranch. He served as justice of the peace, associate justice of the court of sessions, supervisor and assessor. In 1851 he married Anna Levering, and they had eleven children. He moved to Oakland in 1873.
Died, January 9, 1901, in Martinez, C. Y. Brown, a native of Contra Costa County, aged forty years. He was born in Lafayette in 1861, edu- cated in the Martinez schools, admitted to the bar in 1883, elected dis- trict attorney in 1891 on the Democratic ticket, and reelected in 1894 and 1898. He was a member of Mount Diablo Parlor, No. 101, N. S. G. W.
On January 14, 1922, Mrs. Caroline T. Brown, widow of Judge T. A. Brown, answered the final summons at her home in Martinez, aged eighty- eight years. She was born in Illinois and knew Lincoln when he worked in a grist mill for her father. In 1849 she came to California, and in 1850 to Martinez. In 1850 Rev. Cameron, her father, built the first brick building in Martinez. She married T. A. Brown in 1851. She was survived by two sons.
Elam Brown (see his biographical sketch on another page).
Died, at Lafayette, January 18, 1884, Mrs. Margaret Brown, wife of Hon. Elam Brown, aged eighty-nine years and twenty-eight days.
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The death of Mrs. Minnie Andrew Brown, wife of Elam C. Brown, occurred in Martinez in the summer of 1922, at the age of fifty-five years. She was born in Ohio in 1867, and came to California and accepted a po- sition in the Martinez school.
Laura A. Brown, widow of Warren Brown, died at Lafayette on April 9, 1914, aged eighty years, six months. She was born in Ohio in 1833, and crossed the plains in 1853 with her mother, Mrs. Lois Hast- ings, and party. That fall she came to Martinez. She married Warren Brown in 1854, and had been a resident of Lafayette over fifty years.
Hon. Thomas A. Brown was born in Illinois in 1823, crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843, in 1847 came down to California, and in 1849 located in Martinez. In 1849 he was appointed alcalde for the dis- trict; and in 1850 he was elected the first county clerk and recorder. He was then elected supervisor, and in 1856, county judge. He served in the State Assembly in 1865, was elected county judge in 1874, and superior judge in 1879.
Wallace Brown died at the age of sixty-three years in Martinez on . December 3, 1921. He was the son of the late Judge T. A. Brown, and was born in this city.
Hon. Warren Brown was born in Illinois in 1826 and came with his father, Elam Brown, to California in 1846. He was elected county surveyor in 1850, served as a member of the State Assembly in 1854, and in 1869 was elected sheriff. He died in 1889.
James Bryant, a native of England, died in Martinez November 8, 1908, over eighty-six years of age. He came to California via the Horn, being 112 days on the voyage, and came to this county in 1862. He mined at Nortonville, and five years prior to his death he came to Mar- tinez to live.
William H. Buckley died at his home in Walnut Creek at the age of ninety-nine years. He was born in the State of New York, came to Cali- fornia from Mexico in 1849, and in 1854 bought land near Walnut Creek, where he died.
Died, in Martinez, January 3, 1898, R. R. Bunker, a native of Massa- chusetts, aged seventy-five years. He was a pioneer of 1850 in Califor- nia. In 1860 he came to Martinez and bought an interest in the Gazette, and until 1861 it was published by Bradford & Bunker. That year Brad- ford sold to W. W. Theobalds, the firm becoming Bunker & Theobalds. In 1861 the paper was removed to Pacheco. In 1865 C. B. Porter bought the Theobalds interest, and in 1873 the paper came back to Mar- tinez. In March, 1882, F. F. Foster bought a one-third interest in the paper, and the firm became Bunker, Porter & Foster. Porter and Foster retired, and Bunker and Davenport published the paper, and later Bunker and Needles. In 1892 W. G. Brown and Bunker formed a partnership, and in 1895 Mr. Bunker retired.
Louis N. Buttner, county treasurer, died suddenly at 12:30 Satur- day morning, July 5, 1913, aged forty-seven years. He was born at
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Sunol, and in 1889, in San Francisco, was married to Mary Hendry, who with two sons was left to mourn his passing. He was a prominent Mason and Past Master of No. 41, and was a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West at Crockett.
W. E. Calahan, Assemblyman, dropped dead in his drug store at Antioch, December 26, 1919.
Joseph F. Carey, one of the very early settlers of eastern Contra Costa County, died Tuesday, May 24, 1910. He was born in New York in 1833, moved to Wisconsin with his parents, and in 1853 crossed the plains to California. Settling in Contra Costa County in 1865, he en- gaged in ranching, and had a blacksmith shop at Brentwood. In 1866 he married Laura Ann Welch.
Dr. J. H. Carothers was born in Pennsylvania in 1824 and graduated at Miami Medical College. He located at Martinez in 1854, laid out the town of Pacheco in 1857, and was elected to the legislature in 1869.
July 8, 1905 .- After a life of unusual activity, D. S. Carpenter died in Martinez, aged seventy-four years. He was a prominent Odd Fellow. He was born in New York in 1833, came to California in 1852, and in 1856 located in Contra Costa County. He served as justice of the peace and as county tax collector. In 1863 he married Sarah Travers Curry, and they had eleven children.
April 6, 1924 .- J. P. Casey, of Port Costa, was summoned by death, at the age of seventy-nine years. A native of Ireland, he came to the United States fifty years ago, and to Port Costa forty years ago. Mr. Casey served sixteen years as a member of the board of supervisors. He left three children.
Patricio Castro was born in Contra Costa County in 1843; he farmed five miles south of San Pablo. He married Harriet O'Neil in 1875, and they had three children.
John Cavanaugh was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1811; he came to California via Panama in 1862 and located in San Ramon Val- ley, but later moved to Mount Diablo Valley.
John G. Chase was born in New Hampshire in 1837; came via Pan- ama in 1856, and in 1858 located in this county at Antioch, when there was only one house there, and engaged in the livery business. He mar- ried Elmira A. Johnson in 1868, and had two children.
February 16, 1918 .- J. H. Chichester, a pioneer of Richmond, died at his San Pablo home Thursday evening, aged sixty-five years. He was born in New York in 1853, and married Miss Alice Pabb in 1876. He taught school and soon after his marriage moved to San Pablo.
May 19, 1906 .- John P. Chrisman, a pioneer resident of Contra Costa County, died at Danville Saturday, aged eighty years.
Died, in Martinez, May 27, 1901, George W. Christian, a native of New York, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Christian was born in 1828 and came to California across the plains in 1849. In 1852 he moved to this county, where he had since lived.
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Daniel Clancy was born in Ireland in 1822, came via Panama in 1859, and in 1860 located in this county. He married Mary A. Falvey in 1851, and had nine children.
On March 16, 1913, in San Pablo, Charles Henry Clark, the oldest voter in the county, died, aged ninety-seven years and eleven months.
R. J. Clark, a pioneer of Contra Costa, died at his residence in Mar- tinez, March 27, 1885. He was born in Nantucket, November 20, 1815, and in 1851 came to California at the solicitation of Captain Coffin, who desired his services as engineer of the ferry plying between Martinez and Benicia. He remained at his post thirty years.
May 26, 1906 .- Mrs. Susan Classen, who came to California in 1853 to join her father, Seth M. Swain, died in Martinez, aged seventy- four years.
Joel Clayton was born in England. He came across the plains to California in 1850, located land near Black Diamond coal mines in 1859, and established the town of Clayton. He died in 1872.
Felix G. Coats was born in Missouri in 1828, crossed the plains by prairie schooner in 1849, and located with his parents in Contra Costa County in 1852. On February 23, 1860, he married Lovina Doggett, and they had six children. He died on June 10, 1916.
Died, January 4, 1886, Wilson Coats, a native of Tennessee, born in 1802, who came to California, crossing the plains with oxen in 1849. He located in Contra Costa County about 1852, settling in Tassajara Valley, being then the only settler there.
August 21, 1915 .- Mrs. Ann Coleman, one of the oldest pioneers of Martinez, died Monday, aged ninety years. She had lived in Contra Costa County fifty-two years.
Died, May 14, 1918, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary. A. Armstrong of Byron, Mrs. Rebecca Conner, aged ninety-six years and six months. She was born in Ireland in 1821, came to the United States in 1847, and for forty-four years had lived in Byron.
John Conway was born in Ireland in 1830 and was brought to Amer- ica an infant. He came via Panama to California in 1860, located near Danville, and farmed. Later he engaged in mercantile business in San Ramon, having bought out P. G. Peel. He married Nora O'Brien in 1858, and they had two children. He died on January 24, 1915, at Dan- ville, aged eighty-five years.
Died, near Alamo, December 27, 1891, Henry Cook, pioneer, aged seventy-four years. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1817, crossed the plains to Oregon in 1847, and came on to California in 1848. He located in Contra Costa in 1874.
June 10, 1922 .- This week, in Seattle, was held the funeral of George W. Cormack, a native of Contra Costa County, whose discovery of gold on Bonanza Creek in the Klondike, August 17, 1896, sent 60,000 pros- pectors hurrying to Alaska, visited up to that time only by trappers and missionaries.
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March 13, 1926 .- Herman Costa, for over fifty years a resident of Martinez, died at his home on Thompson Street on Tuesday night, aged sixty-nine years. For thirty-two years he had been a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.
January 15, 1921 .- Died, at Concord, J. C. Costa, aged eighty-four years. He was born in Portugal and when a young man came to Cali- fornia. He was survived by ten children.
November 12, 1898 .- Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, Charles S. Cousins, a highly respected resident of the county, died at his home in Martinez. He was born in New York in 1830, came to California in 1859, and located in Contra Costa County. In 1861 he became a clerk in the United States mint at San Francisco; in 1870 he came to Pinole and farmed; in 1882 he was elected county recorder, and held the office until 1895, when he retired.
William Cowan, Sr., one of Contra Costa County's oldest residents, died at his home near Brentwood on February 3, 1910, aged eighty-two.
William Wilson Cox, of San Ramon Valley, died Friday, April 15, 1910, at. the family residence. He was born in Indiana in 1833. In 1852 he went to Missouri with oxen, and on May 2, 1853, started on the five-months journey to California, crossing the plains and coming to this county upon his arrival. He had lived here ever since. In 1865 he mar- ried Mary E. Grist, and they had six children.
Died, in Byron, December 13, 1896, Samuel Crawford, a native of Scotland, aged sixty-seven years.
Died, February 21, 1908, James Curry, an old pioneer, born in Ten- nessee, in 1835, who came to California in 1851. He crossed the plains with ox-teams and located in Contra Costa County in 1852, when he set- tled in Moraga Valley, and later moved to Curry's Canyon; still later, in 1860, he went to Clayton and engaged in the butcher business and af- terwards in the livery business. He drove the stage from Antioch to Oakland. He married, in 1861, Ella Callahan; and they had eight children.
September 26, 1925 .- William Dainty, pioneer of eastern Contra Costa and one of the best-known ranchers of the Brentwood section, passed away Tuesday night about eight o'clock at Merritt Hospital, Oak- land, after a short illness. He was a native of Brentwood and was about sixty years of age. He is mourned by a widow, Mrs. Ella Dainty, one son, Leonard, and three daughters, Mrs. Esther Moody, and Misses Velma and Wilma Dainty, all of Brentwood. A particularly sad feature of the death of the pioneer is that one of his daughters was to have become a bride next Saturday. Mr. Dainty was a nephew of Mrs. H. L. Howard of Martinez, and was well known here, where he frequently visited.
Thomas Dake, for more than thirty years a resident of Martinez, died on September 10, 1919, ninety-one years of age. He had been a resident of California about forty-five years.
Died, on March 27, 1921, Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Daley, one of the pio- neer women of Martinez, who came here with her father, Cornelius S.
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Whitcomb, when she was four years old, and settled near Lafayette. She had lived in the county over sixty years, and was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
March 30, 1907 .- Died, aged seventy-nine years, David Davis, a pioneer miner of Nortonville. He was a native of Wales, born in 1828, and in the early sixties came to this county.
John Davis was born in Dalmatia in 1825, came to California in 1849, and in 1851 located in Contra Costa County. He married Anna Connor and had six children.
March 19, 1911 .- Died, in Pinole, David Dean, a pioneer of Contra Costa County and a native of New York, aged eighty-two years.
January 28, 1925 .- One of the pioneers of Richmond, Peter W. Dean, passed away at his home at 829 Fifty-sixth Street, Oakland, last night at about 8 o'clock. He was forty-three years old and was a native of Berkeley. He was the brother of Patrick M. Dean of Richmond, the man who became famous about twenty years ago by the promotion of the Nelson and Wolgast fight at Point Richmond.
R. G. Dean, a pioneer of the county, passed away at Brentwood April 12, 1920, in his ninetieth year. He was born in New York in 1831, was orphaned at sixteen years of age, and left for California when he was eighteen years old. He married Miss Jerusha H. Martin in San Fran- cisco in 1864. He was the man who named Lake Tahoe.
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