Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Clayton, Charles J. 1850 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

CHARLES J. CLAYTON—The subject of this sketch is the son of the above Joel and
Margaret (Maclay) Clayton, and was born in Wisconsin, June 10, 1850. In the
Winter of 1857 his mother, one brother and sister, started, via New York and
Panama, for this coast, his father having preceded them to the Golden State. On
arriving at San Francisco, they resided there a short time, when his parents
moved to Stockton, where he remained about six months. He then moved to Kern
river, where he sojourned for one year, from whence he went to San Francisco,
where he resided until coming to Contra Costa county. While in San Francisco,
our subject attended the common schools, and at the age of eighteen took a
course in the Washington grammar school of that city. On arriving in this
county, Mr. Clayton first located on the land on which that thriving little
village which now bears his name is situated. On the death of his father, our
subject took charge of the homestead, consisting of twelve hundred acres of
valuable land, adjoining the town of Clayton, and is now one of the prosperous
farmers of Contra Costa. Was married, in Clayton, April 2, 1878, to Miss Lizzie
Alison, a native of Benicia, California. They have two living children, and one
deceased—Jeannett A. (Charles W. deceased) and Charles E.

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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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