Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Abbott, J. P. 1840 - 
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Author: W. A. & Slocum & Co. (1882)

J. P. ABBOTT.—Whose portrait appears in this volume, was born at Boscawen, New
Hampshire, March 3, 1840. He assisted his father on the farm, attending the
winter school until seventeen years of age, fitted for college at "Elmwood
Institute," and entered Dartmouth College in 1861; came to California during the
Fall of 1863. Taught school six months in Napa county, and during the Autumn of
1864, in company with a gentleman recently from Idaho, crossed the Sierras with
a band of cattle, intending to winter on the Humboldt and reach the Idaho mines
the following Spring. The enterprise, however, was destined not to succeed.
Arriving at the desert at Granite Creek Station, they camped, as usual, for the
night, but awoke to find before them fifteen miles of solid ice as smooth and
glassy as ever was seen on a New England mill pond. Here they were compelled to
remain for six months, being joined meantime by another party on a similar
expedition. While thus detained, the Piute war broke out, most of the stock died
or were stolen by the Indians. One of the men was killed by the hostile Piutes,
and joining an emigrant party Mr. Abbott returned to California. Crossing the
Sierras alone, and on foot, he arrived in Napa City in the Spring of 1865. He
entered the law office of Thomas J. Tudler, then District Attorney of the
county, and was admitted to the Bar in the Fall of 1866. After a brief visit
east he returned and located at Antioch, in Contra Costa county, where, with the
exception of one year spent at San Diego, he has since resided. For eleven years
he published the Antioch Ledger, being editor and proprietor. Married Miss
Malvina G. McMaster, June 25, 1872.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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