Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Obituaries.....Mastick, Edwin Baird February 17, 1901
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Oakland Tribune, February 18, 1901
Oakland Tribune
February 18, 1901 (Monday)
Page 3, Column 3

“DEATH SUMMONS E. B. MASTICK OF ENCINAL CITY.

Was One of the Prominent Lawyers in This State.

ALAMEDA, Feb. 18. Edwin Beard [Baird] Mastick, the well known lawyer, died at 
his home yesterday morning [February 17].

The death of the aged practitioner had been hourly expected for the last two or 
three weeks.  His eight surviving children were at the bedside when life ebbed 
out.  Three years ago Mr. Mastick suffered a severe attack of the grip which 
brought on heart failure and other complications from which he never recovered.

Mr. Mastick was born in Geauga county, Ohio, March 22, 1824, and was, 
therefore, aged 76 years and 10 months.  While he was yet an infant his parents 
removed to Rockport in the same county.  There he receive a meager education 
and grew to manhood.  As a young man he practiced law in Cleveland, having 
first been a student in a law office in that city.  

In 1848 Mr. Mastick married Miss Lucretta M[ary] Wood of Rockport.  In 1851 he 
came to California by way of the Isthmus.  He soon succeeded in building up a 
large law practice.  Many positions of trust and large interests were given 
into Mr. Mastick’s care.  He was at various times the senior member of the 
firms of Mastick & Mastick, Mastick, Belcher & Mastick, and Mastick, Van Fleet 
& Mastick.  The building at the corner of Montgomery and Commercial streets 
contained Mr. Mastick’s office for forty-three successive years.

Shortly after he came to California Mr. Mastick was elected to the Supreme 
Court clerkship.  As a member of the Lick Trust he won an enviable name by 
assisting in the skillful management of the great finances, retiring with honor 
in 1895, when the trust was dissolved.  By reason of his connection with the 
Lick Trust, he was made an honorary member of the California Society of 
Pioneers.  He took a great interest, to, in the Crocker Old Ladies’ Home, of 
which he had been a trustee since its founding.

The city of Alameda owes a great deal of its prosperity to Mr. Mastick’s public-
spiritedness.  For fifteen years he was a member of the Board of City 
Trustees.  Ten years of this time he filled the president’s chair, retiring in 
1893.  His residence in Alameda extended over thirty-seven years.  A large 
estate at the western end of the city was his and Mastick Station, on the broad 
gauge line, was named for him.

Mr. Mastick leaves surviving him a widow and eight children.  The children are 
Edwin B. Mastick Jr., Seattle; George H. Mastick, Alameda; Charles L. Mastick, 
Portland, Or.; Mrs. Frank Otis, Alameda [nee Lucretia “Lulu” Lockwood Mastick]; 
Reuben W. Mastick, Alameda; Mrs. Ira B. Hyde, Princeton, Mo. [nee Eliza “Dolly” 
Tomlinson Mastick]; Mary L. Mastick, Alameda, and S. L[incoln] Mastick, 
Alameda.  There are eighteen grandchildren.

No time has been set for Mr. Mastick’s funeral on account of the precarious 
condition of his widow.  She also has been lying at death’s door for a week or 
more, her illness having been the result of the great strain due to her 
husband’s illness.” END

AND

Oakland Tribune
February 20, 1901 (Wednesday)
Page 7, Column 1

“Five Sons Bore Him to the Grave

Funeral of Late E. B. Mastick in Alameda Today.

ALAMEDA, Feb. 20. The funeral of Edwin B[aird] Mastick, who passed away last 
Sunday, took place at 11 o’clock this morning from the family residence, 871 
Pacific avenue near Ninth street.

Owing to the dangerous illness of Mrs. Mastick [nee Mary Lucretia Wood], the 
widow, it was deemed inexpedient that any public funeral of the distinguished 
Alamedan be held.  The services were impressively conducted by Rev. D. B. 
Kelley, an Episcopalian rector of San Francisco and a relative of Mrs. 
Mastick’s.

Sacred music appropriate to the occasion was furnished by the Knickerbocker 
Quartet.  The floral tributes were both numerous and beautiful.  A host of 
friends, among them being some of California’s most distinguished public men, 
who had formed the acquaintance of the deceased in the early days, attended the 
funeral and paid their last respects to the departed.  Notable among these were 
Judge Van Dyke, George K. Fitch of San Francisco, S. W. Halliday, Timothy 
Barker and others.

The pallbearers were George H[enry] Mastick, E[dwin] B[aird] Mastick Jr., 
Charles L[evi] Mastick, Reuben W[ood] Mastick, Seabury L[incoln] Mastick – the 
five sons of decedent, and W. H. Cone.

The interment was at Mountain View Cemetery [in Oakland].” END

Additional Comments:
Note that there are two articles above related to the death and funeral of 
Edwin B. Mastick.

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