History of Contra Costa County, California; with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 9

Author: Munro-Fraser, J. P
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1118

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John Marsh for Los Méganos, 4 square leagues, granted October 13, 1835, by José Castro to José Noriega. Claim filed May 3, 1852; reject- ed by committee March 14, 1854; confirmed by district court April 9, 1858, and later by the United States Supreme Court.

Maria Antonia Martinez de Richardson et al. for Pinole, 4 square leagues, 17,786.49 acres, granted June 1, 1842, by Juan B. Alvarado to Ygnacio Martinez. Claim filed July 8, 1852; confirmed by committee October 24, 1854; dismissed March 10, 1857.

Leo Norris for part of San Ramon, 1 square league, 4,450.94 acres, granted by Figueroa to José M. Amador. Claim filed September 20, 1852; confirmed by committee August 1, 1854, by district court Sept. 10, 1857.

Joaquin Ysidro Castro, administrator for San Pablo, 4 square leagues, 19,394.40 acres, granted by Figueroa June 12, 1834, to Francisco Castro, deceased, and to his heirs; and on the 13th, the surplus lands to Joaquin Ysidro Castro and the heirs of Francisco Castro. Claim filed October 9, 1852; confirmed by committee April 17, 1855 ; by district court February 24, 1858; appeal dismissed March 10, 1858.

Maria Manuela Valencia for Boca de Cañada del Pinole, 3 square leagues, 13,353.38 acres, granted June 21, 1842, by Juan B. Alvarado to M. M. Valencia. Claim filed December 13, 1852; rejected by committee August 10, 1854; confirmed by district court November 26, 1854, and by United States Supreme Court.

Joaquin Moraga for Laguna de los Palos Colorados, 3 square leagues, 13,318.13 acres, granted August 10, 1841, by Alvarado to Juan Moraga and Juan Bernal. Claim filed February 15, 1853 ; confirmed by committee January 23, 1855; by district court March 24, 1856; appeal dismissed April 8, 1858.

Jonathan D. Stevenson et al. for Médanos, 2 square leagues, 8,890.26 acres, granted November 26, 1839, by Alvarado to José Antonio Mesa et al. Claim filed February 24, 1853 ; confirmed by committee June 19, 1855 ; by district court October 16, 1856; appeal dismissed April 2, 1857.

Inocencio Romero et al. for land granted February 4, 1844, by Mich- eltorena to I. Romero et al. Claim filed February 4, 1844; rejected by committee April 17, 1855, and by district court September 16, 1857.

E. R. Carpentier, 10 square leagues, a portion granted by de Sola ; an- other portion granted in 1841 to Juan, José and Victor Castro by Alva- rado; another portion granted by Figueroa to Francisco Castro and re- granted in 1844 by Micheltorena to Louis Peralta. Claim filed February 28, 1853; rejected by committee January 30, 1855 ; appeal dismissed for failure of prosecution, April 21, 1856.

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H. W. Carpentier for 225 acres, granted by de Sola and Micheltorena to Louis Peralta. Claim filed February 28, 1853; discontinued by claim- ant January 23, 1855.

William C. Jones et al. for San Pablo, 3 square leagues, granted June 12, 1834, by Figueroa to Francisco M. Castro. Claim filed March 1, 1853; rejected by committee March 27, 1855 ; appeal dismissed for failure to prosecute April 21, 1856.

James Enright et al. for Médanos, 2 square leagues, granted Novem- ber 26, 1839, by Alvarado to José Antonio and José Maria Mesa. Claim filed March 2, 1853; rejected by committee March 27, 1855 ; appeal dis- missed for failure to prosecute April 21, 1856.

THE INDIANS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY

The Indians of Contra Costa County were the Jucheyunes, Alcalanes, Bolgones, and Carquinez. They were ignorant and went half naked, the inen wearing a crude sort of loin cloth and the women an apron of tules, hanging from the waist to the knees, front and back, and open at the sides, as summer garb; in winter their garments were made from deer skin or feathers from water fowls. Their summer habitations were little more than skelters made from boughs, interwoven to hold together and keep off the sun. In winter they lived in their wikiups, "sometimes erected on level ground," as Bancroft describes them, "but more frequently over an excavation three or four feet deep and from ten to thirty feet in diameter. Round the brink of this hole willow poles are sunk upright in the ground, the top drawn together forming a conical structure; or the upper ends are bent over and driven into the earth on the opposite side of the hole, thus giving the hut a semi-globular shape. Bushes or strips of bark are then piled up against the poles, and the whole covered with a thick layer of earth or mud. In some instances the interstices of the frame are filled with twigs woven crosswise over and under between the poles, and the out- side covering is of tule reeds instead of earth. A hole at the top gives egress to the smoke, and a small opening close to the ground admits the occupants. Each hut generally shelters a whole family of relations by blood and marriage, so that the dimensions of the habitation depend on the size of the family."

The Indians were short and stocky, broad-shouldered and strong. They were swarthy and had flat features and long, straight, black hair, coarse and unkempt.

Dr. John Marsh, writing to Lewis Cass in 1846, says "they are a hairy race, and some of them have beards that would do honor to a Turk. In some individuals the hair grows quite down to the eyebrows, and they may be said to have no foreheads at all. Some few have that peculiar conformation of the eye so remarkable in the Chinese and Tartar races, entirely different from the American Indian, or the Polynesian; and with

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this unpromising set of features, some have an animated and agreeable countenance."

For food they ate various kinds of roots, earthworms and grasshop- pers. They made a bread from the pounded kernel of the acorn or buck- eye, and used some kinds of fat worms for shortening. In fact they ate anything and everything, according to the season.

The Contra Costa Indians cremated their dead, the near relation of the deceased being given the honor of lighting the funeral pyre, which consumed all possessions that had been piled around the body. After- wards the ashes would be mixed with pitch and smeared on the faces of the relations as a badge of mourning. They believed in a continued exist- ence after death, and had a vague idea of the Great Spirit. They held certain rocks to be sacred, and would not eat grizzly bear meat, which they held in veneration. They were extremely docile and would willingly submit to punishment for faults committed, if shown kindness to start with. They were about the only laborers in California in the early days.

OLD ADOBES

In San Pablo is located what is left of the oldest adobe house in Contra Costa County. It was built in 1838 by Don Joaquin Castro, once gover- nor of California under Spanish rule. The outer walls are of adobe (clay and grass to hold it together) three feet thick; the inner walls are two feet thick. The rooms were spacious and were the scene of many fash- ionable gatherings. This house, first occupied by the Castro family, was later the home of Juan B. Alvarado, also an ex-governer, and the father of Henry V. Alvarado, one of the superior judges of the county. This property is now a part of the Belding estate.

Adobe bricks were made by the Indians, who usually worked for the Spanish dons without pay. The bricks were made of clay, mixed with grass to hold the shape, molded into shape, and left to dry. First one side was turned to the sun, then the other, until dry all through. They were then laid into the wall with mortar made of mud, and again left to dry. To build an adobe house was a laborious task, and usually a year elapsed before the house was ready for occupancy.

At the county line, there is another adobe house, which was occupied by Victor Castro, a son of the former governor. In conncetion with it are two long buildings, one used as a stable and the other as a chapel for the Indians. Some of the Castro family are buried near this latter house.

On the Sobrante Grant is still a third adobe. This was occupied by a daughter of Castro. She married a Catterras. In the yard at this place members of the Catterras family are buried.

TRANSPORTATION

The first mail ever carried up the Sacramento River was carried by Seth M. Swain, of Martinez, in the schooner John Dunlap, on July 24,

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1849. He received $600 for his service, although the postage paid was less than $60 and the mail was all contained in one bag.

In 1849 Dr. Semple, of Benicia, established the first ferry running to a point now the site of Alhambra cemetery. The boat was propelled by oars at first; then a wheel was put on and run by horse power.

In 1851, Capt. O. C. Coffin put on the first flat-bottom boat, the Ione, and carried passengers from Antioch and Collinsville. He brought the boat to Martinez, remodeled it, as it had been run by horse power, put in an engine, and gave regular service between Martinez and Benicia until July, 1854. There was no ferry slip or wharf; an apron was used to land passengers and vehicles. The landing was at the foot of Ferry Street. Later the Ione became a float for a pile-driver; and when her days of usefulness were over she was run aground in the tules, and there her hull gradually rotted.

In 1853 a steam ferry was built in New York, brought via the Horn to Martinez and launched in the spring of 1854, and began regular serv- ice in July. It was owned by Capt. O. C. Coffin and Charles G. and Henry Coffin and was called the Carquinez. There was a large volume of busi- ness done in carrying stock across the straits. A large corral was built where the depot grounds of the Southern Pacific now are. It was com- posed of cordwood, which was used on the ferry to generate steam. The sticks were four feet long and the corral was built six feet high, and there was always enough wood on hand to keep a good corral. The charge was $1 per head for cattle. The ferry also carried mail and passengers, as there were many school children going to and from Benicia.

When the Carquinez was condemned, the Benicia was built and the engines were transferred from the old to the new boat. When the rail- road put on the Solano, the Benicia failed to pay and was abandoned.

Vessels plying between San Francisco and up river points made Mar- tinez a port of call daily.

In 1877 the railroad was built through Contra Costa County by the Central Pacific. The road was completed in 1878, at which time immi- gration began in earnest and the whole county benefited. Stage coach and sail boat were slow means of getting over the country, and freight teams soon disappeared.

Byron came into prominence on account of its mineral springs being visited by thousands from every part of the United States and abroad.

The San Ramon branch of the railroad was built in 1890 and opened up the best section of the county.

The Santa Fe, established early in 1895 as the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley .Railroad at a cost of $2,500,000, began operating · at Stockton on July 22. It had been built by San Francisco capital. In 1899 the company sold out to the Santa Fe. On August 26 of that year the Santa Fe was completed to Pinole, and on March 3, 1902, the post office, Wells-Fargo Express, telegraph office and news depot opened, all in the 4

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railroad station. In 1900 the line was completed between Stockton and Richmond, the shops being located in the latter place that year, and the service on cars being done in the open on side tracks until January 26, 1901, when permanent buildings were erected and the shops began functioning.

In January, 1909, the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern was incorporated, a 1200-volt electric line between San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento, and passing through the Moraga Valley to Moraga, the Country Club, Burton and Lafayette, and through San Ramon Valley to Saranap. It branched off to Alamo, Danville and Diablo, Walnut Creek, Pacheco Val- ley, Concord, Bay Point, West Pittsburg, and again to Pittsburg. It was incorporated by A. W. Maltby, of Concord, W. Arnstein, of Alamo, and S. L. Napthaly and H. A. Mitchell, both of San Francisco. Work began at Bay Point in February, 1909; and in May, 1911, it was opened to Wal- nut Creek, and on to Oakland in April, 1913. On April 11, 1911, the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern incorporated to build to Sacramento from Bay Point, and in August, 1913, the line was put in.operation between Bay Point and Pittsburg Landing. The new road leased the old Oakland & Antioch and the San Ramon Valley Railroad, and passenger and freight service are looked after carefully.

The county is traversed and served by several lines of auto stages run- ning from Stockton, Oakland, and other Northern California points, so that no difficulty arises when a person wants to reach any given point at any time.

BRIDGES AND FERRIES

An aid to transportation through Contra Costa County from the east and north will be found in the two large toll-bridges now under construc- tion by the American Toll Bridge Company, a $5,000,000 corporation. The one nearest completion is being built across the San Joaquin River three miles south of Antioch and connects with Sherman Island. This bridge will open up a quicker route to the bay cities through the richest farming sections of the county. It will cost $1,400,000 when completed, and will have a clearance of from 311/2 to 70 feet from high water to the floor of the bridge, with a ninety-foot fairway between the piers supporting the causeway. The roadway will be wide enough for three automobiles abreast and cement walks for pedestrians.

The bridge, 3587 feet long, a concrete trestle, has one fixed steel span with seventy-foot clearance at high water, and one steel lift span with a minimum clearance of 136 feet when the span is open. Each span has 270 feet between the piers. Both the fixed and the lift span will accommodate the river traffic, and the lift span all sea-going vessels when open.

Thousands of tourists, routed over the Victory Highway from all eastern points through Sacramento, and on down past Courtland, Isleton and Rio Vista to Sherman Island, will pass through Antioch, Pittsburg, Concord and Walnut Creek on the concrete highways to Oakland and San Francisco.

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The Carquinez Straits bridge will extend from a point near South Vallejo, in Solano County, to Valona, in Contra Costa County, and will be one of the largest bridges of its kind in the country. It will be 3350 feet in length and will cost $6,500,000. There will be a clearance of 135 feet for ships, a thirty-foot concrete roadway, space for sidewalks, and one track for electric trains.

Engineers who have studied the vehicular traffic in the State, particu- larly the present ferry receipts of the Rodeo Ferry, which is owned by the company building these bridges, estimate that the two bridges will carry more than a million vehicles during the first year they are in operation. The American Toll Bridge Company promises that both bridges will be completed and open for traffic before the expiration of the new time limit, which was fixed as February 5, 1927, a twelve-months extension of time having been granted by the board of supervisors.

At the expiration of twenty-five years the owership of the Carquinez bridge, by terms of the franchise, reverts to Contra Costa and Solano Counties. Until that time Contra Costa County will receive one per cent of the gross income from both bridges, which it is estimated will exceed $1,000,000 annually. Solano County will receive one per cent of the gross income from the Carquinez bridge, and Sacramento County a like per cent of the gross income from the Antioch bridge. In addition, this county will receive $100 per month for franchise rights.

Then there are the ferries: The Richmond-San Francisco ferry, from Richmond to San Francisco; the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry, from Rich- mond to San Quentin Point, opening up the coast counties of Marin, So- noma, Mendocino, and Humboldt; Rodeo Ferry from Rodeo to South Val- lejo, a short route through Napa and Solano Counties to Sacramento and the north; the Martinez-Benicia Ferry, also giving direct communication for Oakland and San Joaquin Valley points with Northern California and the coast counties ; the Port Costa-Benicia Southern Pacific train ferry, with the largest ferry boat in operation in the world; and the ferry for the Oakland, Antioch & Eastern (Sacramento Short Line), near Pittsburg.

MINERALS AND MINING

In 1850 a lime quarry was discovered one mile from Pacheco. This was the first in the State and was owned by F. L. Such & Company.

On November 24, 1858, Rountree, Walker & Dickson discovered coal half way between the base of Mount Diablo and what is now Antioch, five miles from the San Joaquin River. That same year W. C. Israel dis- covered coal while cleaning out a spring on his land at Horse Haven. He, with his father and brother George, opened up the vein. Later they dis- posed of it to Watkins and Noyes. In 1861 the mine was abandoned.

On December 22, 1859, three and one-half miles from Horse Haven, Frank Somers and J. T. Cruikshank discovered the Black Diamond vein. Somers, Cruikshank, H. S. Hauxhurst, and S. Adams located lands that were later known as the Manhattan and Eureka Mines. George Haux-

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hurst, G. H. P. Henderson and William Henderson, and Frank Somers opened the Black Diamond and the Cumberland Mines. Noah Norton afterwards had the Black Diamond and Frank Such the Cumberland. Such sold out to C. T. Cutler, A. Tyler, J. Sturgis, and L. C. Wittenmyer of Martinez, who successfully worked the property and built the roads from Clayton and New York Landing. They also helped Norton to open the Black Diamond.

The Pittsburg Mine was located by G. H. P. Henderson. The Central Coal Mine was located by J. E. Wright, who later was joined by W. B. Stewart. The Union Mine was located by George Hauxhurst. Indepen- dence was purchased from R. Charnock by Greenwood and Newbauer.

The Empire Company opened in 1876. For many years coal-mining was the principal interest in the county. Somersville, Nortonville, and Black Diamond, or Pittsburg Landing, were built through this industry.

Copper was discovered in 1863, and its discovery created great excite- ment. Prices for land soared, and for a time hundreds prospected, but the excitement soon died down. Clayton was the center of this excitement, and the operations there brought on boom times. Lots sold for high prices, many companies were formed, shafts were sunk, and some ore was obtained. The first shipment was two tons of copper ore, and was made on September 19, 1863, when it was sent to San Francisco to be smelted. Later a smelter was erected at Antioch.

In March, 1860, L. W. Hastings discovered silver on the east side of Mount Diablo. Nothing ever came of it, however, except as a venture in which many people dropped their money.

Paint deposits were discovered in 1862 and were tested out by Dr. E. F. Hough. These deposits were found two miles from Martinez on the bank of the El Hambre Creek, and the colors were yellow, green, blue and red. In 1863 a mill for grinding was built, but the industry was never de- veloped to the extent necessary to determine its real value commercially.

In 1862 petroleum was discovered near Antioch. Coal oil was also found near Pacheco in 1868.

The Cowell Portland Cement Company have 3000 acres at the base of Mount Diablo, where they have the greatest cement plant in the world.

IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS

Among the industrial concerns of Contra Costa County we mention the following as the more important :

City Firm

Value of

Product

Number of Employees

Antioch-Hickmott Canning Co. $

750,000 140

The Paraffine Companies, Inc.

3,000,000 285

Antioch Mill & Lumber Co.

200,000 25

Bay Point-Coos Bay Lumber Co. American Foundry Co.

3,600,000 250

10,000 6

Brentwood-Cal. Wharf & Warehouse Co

8,000 5

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101

Crockett-Cal. & Hawaiian Refining Corp.

$70,000,000 2000

Cowell-Cowell Portland Cement Co.

3,000,000 235

Giant-Giant Powder Works

5,000,000 150

Hercules-Hercules Powder Works

10,000,000 250

Martinez- Shell Oil Co.

40,000,000

1200

Associated Oil Co. (Avon) American Oriental Oil Co.

550,000 35

Nichols-General Chemical Co.

750,000

350

Oleum-Union Oil Co.

10,000,000 500

Pittsburg-Columbia Steel Corporation

7,000,000 1500

Redwood Manufacturers Co.

4,750,000 400

Pioneer Rubber Mills

3,000,000 400

F. E. Booth Co.

2,500,000 500

Great Western Electro Chemical Co.

1,000,000 250

Pittsburg Fisheries

800,000

250

Western California Fish Co.

500,000 25

A. B. Davis Fisheries

300,000

100

National Chemical Co.

85,000

Alaska Fishermen

250

Bundesen & Lauritzen, Shipbuilders

C. A. Hooper Lumber Co.

California Bean Growers

Johns-Mannsville Co.

125

Pioneer Dairy Co.

Coast Counties Gas & Electric Co.

Standard Oil Co.

Union Oil Co.

Port Costa-Port Costa Brick Works

Port Costa Warehouses

400

Richmond-Standard Oil Co. and 20 aux. plnts. 60,000,000 Pacific Sanitary Mfg. Co.

2850

3,000,000

1100

Certain-Teed Products

2,250,000 200

Stauffer Chemical Works

1,250,000

California Cap Works

685,000

120

California Art Tile Co.

Blake Bros. Quarry

500,000

E. M. Tilden Mills

165,000

Hutchinson Quarry Co.

190,000

Pacific Vegetable Oil & Lead Co.

275,000

Princeton Knitting Mills

250,000

Pullman Car Shops

750

Republic Steel Package Co.

Richmond Pressed Brick Co.

250,000

Santa Fe Railway Shops

700

Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co.

1000

25,000,000 $50

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Selby-Selby Smelting & Lead Co. $60,000,000 450

Stege-Wheeler, Reynolds & Stauffer 25

Stege Lumber Co. 40

Walnut Creek-Cal. Walnut Growers' Assn. 35

Walnut Creek Canning Co. 35

Tilden Mill & Lumber Co., various plants 40

Southern Pacific Railroad Co. 500

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. 50

CHAPTER IV

COUNTY OFFICERS

The officers of Contra Costa County, from the time of its organiza- tion down to the present, are chronologically listed below under their of- ficial titles.

SENATORS

1850, W. R. Bascom; 1851, G. B. Tingley; 1852, Jacob Gruwell; 1854, W. H. McCoun; 1856, A. R. Meloney; 1858, G. W. Dent; 1860, A. Inman; 1862, C. B. Porter; 1867, J. J. Green; 1871, D. Goodale; 1875, Paul Shirley; 1879, W. H. Sears; 1882, W. B. English; 1884, Frank C. DeLong; 1886, J. P. Abbott; 1900, C. M. Belshaw; 1908, E. B. Martin- elli; 1916, J. C. Owens ; 1918, W. R. Sharkey.

ASSEMBLYMEN

1850, Elam Brown; 1851, N. B. Smith; 1852, H. W. Carpenter ; 1853, F. M. Warmcastle; 1854, Warren Brown; 1855, A. R. Meloney; 1856, A. Inman; 1857, F. M. Warmcastle; 1858, B. S. Hines; 1859, C. Yager; 1860, C. B. Porter; 1862, T. B. Wright; 1865, T. A. Brown; 1869, J. H. Carothers; 1871, J. W. Galloway; 1873, A. W. Hammitt; 1875, Charles Wood; 1877, A. J. Young; 1879, D. N. Sherburne; 1880, J. P. Jones; 1882, G. W. Carter; 1886, D. N. Sherburne; 1890, G. W. Carter; 1892, H. Hook; 1894, C. M. Belshaw; 1900, M. B. Ivory; 1902, Henry Ells; 1906, P. C. Campbell; 1908, T. D. Johnson; 1910, M. R. Jones ; 1916, T. D. Johnson; 1918, W. E. Calahan.

DISTRICT JUDGES

1850, J. H. Watson; 1851, C. P. Hester; 1853, E. W. Mckinstry; 1863, T. A. Brown, 1865, S. H. Dwinnelle, who served until 1879, when the office was abolished.

COUNTY JUDGES AND SUPERIOR JUDGES

1855, R. N. Wood; 1856, T. A. Brown; 1863, Mark Shepard; 1871, C. W. Lander; 1875, T. A. Brown, who served until 1879, when the of- fice was abolished and the superior bench was organized, to which he

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was elected, being continued in the office until 1886. He was succeeded by J. P. Jones, who served until 1900. W. S. Wells was appointed to succeed Jones, and in 1908 Fred V. Wood succeeded to the office, serving until 1914, when R. H. Latimer was elected. H. V. Alvarado was ap- pointed upon the death of Latimer and is still in office. In 1915 Depart- ment 2 was organized, and A. B. Mckenzie was appointed and later elected, and is still in office.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF COURT OF SESSIONS

1850, A. Peak and E. G. Guest. Guest resigned and S. J. Tennent was appointed August 19, 1850. 1851, B. R. Holliday and A. R. Meloney ; 1852, E. G. Weld succeeded Holliday; 1853, G. F. Worth and J. M. Blood; 1854, J. B. Richardson and L. S. Knowles; 1857, F. Vander- wenter and Thomas Russell; 1860, R. P. White succeeded Vanderwenter and that same year the office was abolished.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

The county started out in 1850 with six justices of the peace, viz. : B. R. Holliday, A. Peak, E. G. Guest, S. J. Tennent, J. S. Beemer and José J. Estudillo.

In 1851 Edson Adams succeeded Peak from Brooklyn, and A. R. Me- loney succeeded Guest

In 1852 William Hillegass succeeded Holliday, G. M. Blake succeed- ed Adams, S. Baldwin succeeded Meloney, and A. W. Genung succeeded S. J. Tennent.

In 1853 the following justices were elected: M. Cole, G. F. Worth, P. M. Lea, J. M. Blood, G. W. Kimball, J. G. Perkins, A. R. Meloney, D. Hodges.

In 1854 two justices were elected from each newly made district, viz. : M. Bowen and G. F. Worth, district No. 1; G. W. Hammitt, and H. B. Hale, district No. 2; A. B. Bates and L. S. Knowles, district No. 3; S. Stone and J. F. Alsop, district No. 4; F. Mitchell and S. Pacheco, district No. 5 ; and J. B. Richardson and S. Adams, district No. 6.

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History of Contra Costa County, California; with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 9

Author: Munro-Fraser, J. P Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1118

Author: Munro-Fraser, J. P
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1118