Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Obituaries.....Mastick, Edwin B. February 17, 1901
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San Francisco Call, February 18, 1901
“E. B. MASTICK DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS 
[Includes a portrait by Taber with caption]
Eminent Attorney Passes Away in Alameda, Leaving His Wife at Death's Door.  
Alameda. Feb. 17.  - Edwin Beard Mastick, the eminent lawyer, succumbed to 
death this morning at 7 o’clock after suffering a long illness. 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 received 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 Lucretia M. 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 be 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, too, 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; Reuben W. Mastick, Alameda; Mrs. Ira 
B. Hyde, Princeton, Mo.; Mary L. Mastick, Alameda, and S. L. 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

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San Francisco Call, February 18, 1901 (Monday), Page 9, Column 3.

“DIED. MASTICK-In Alameda. February 17, 1901, Edwin Baird Mastick, a native of 
Geauga County, Ohio, aged 76 years 10 months and 25 days. Funeral and interment 
private.” END

AND

San Francisco Call, February 20, 1901 (Wednesday), Page 11, Column 5.

“DIED. MASTICK— In Alameda, February 17, 1901, Edwin Baird Mastick, aged 76 
years 10 months and 25 days.  Friends and acquaintances are respectfully 
invited to attend the funeral services this day (Wednesday), at 11 o'clock, at 
his late residence, 821 Pacific avenue (Mastick station), Alameda.” END 


Additional Comments:
San Francisco Call, February 18, 1901 (Monday), Page 7, Column 1.


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