Contra Costa-Tuolumne-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Condie, John 1827 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN CONDIE.—Born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland, January 1, 1827, and there
resided until his coming to the United States in 1850. On arriving in New York
he at once commenced working at his trade of blacksmith, and followed it for
four years, at the end of which time he proceeded to Australia, in which country
he followed mining, and worked at his trade for four years more. He now took
passage in the ship What Cheer for California, and arrived in San Francisco in
September, 1858. Mr. Condie almost immediately went to the mines in Tuolunme
county; afterwards he embarked in quartz mining for four years. He then
proceeded to Mexico in the capacity of foreman to a mine, and there resided
until 1868, when he returned to San Francisco, and finally coming to Contra
Costa county, engaged for seven years in coal mining at Nortonville. In the year
1875 he purchased his present hotel property in the village of Clayton, where he
has since resided. Mr. Condie also owns eighty acres of land in the vicinity of
Clayton, fourteen of which are planted with vines. Married in Nortonville, to
Miss Elizabeth Scolley, a native of Scotland, and has: George, Jean, John and
Catharine L.



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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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