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

JOHN L. ECKLEY.—Was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 1827, and is the son
of David and Caroline (Amory) Eckley. He resided there until 1847, and received
a good education. In 1843 he was engaged in the well-known commission house of
Chandler, Howard & Co., on Central Wharf, and after a period of four years, left
their employ, when occupying the position of head book-keeper. In 1847 he sailed
for the East Indies, and engaged in tin mining on the Peninsula of Malacca,
which he continued for two years. He then returned to Boston, via Europe,
afterward visiting the Southern and Western States. In February, 1851, our
subject sailed from New York, via the Isthmus of Panama, for California, and
arrived in San Francisco in March. He immediately proceeded to Sacramento, and
was employed as real estate agent, having charge of the property of Howard,
Brannan, Larkin, and others, where he remained about two years. He then returned
to San Francisco, and acted as agent for Thomas O. Larkin for one year, when he
again returned to New York, and engaged in a Honduras Colonization scheme. In
1859 he took a pleasure trip to China, Japan, and other countries, and once more
returned to California, in the following year. He settled in San Francisco, and
remained there until 1862, when he went to Victoria, British Columbia, where he
engaged in the drug business, which he followed for one year, when he returned
to San Francisco and went into the oil business, which he carried on for a
twelvemonth. He then went to Virginia City, and there embarked in mining
speculations for a short time, when he moved to Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, where
he resided two years. In 1866 he settled in San Francisco, and from there went
East, on business; after an absence of three months he returned to California,
and organized the house of James W. Burnham & Co., of Sail Francisco, dealers in
carpets, where he was engaged until March, 1881. In 1868 he purchased his
present place near Port Costa. Mr. Eckley has always taken a great interest in
yachting, and was the first Vice-Commodore of the San Francisco Yacht Club, and
first Commodore of the Pacific Yacht Club. He married, August 13, 1864, Sarah E.
Burnham, a native of Newburyport, Essex county, Massachusetts, who was born
October 16, 1836, and is the daughter of James and Lucy Burnham. By this union
there are: John H., born June 19, 1865; Henry, born November 10, 1866; Frank K.,
born August 31, 1869, and Fannie M., born July 13,1871.

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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