Contra Costa-Solano-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Elliott, Mark 1826 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

MARK ELLIOTT.—The subject of this sketch is the son of John and Elizabeth
(Berry) Elliott, and was born in Belmont county, Ohio, April 30, 1826. At a
tender age he was taken by his parents to Guernsey county, in the same State. At
eight he went with them to Delaware county, where he attended the common
schools. At the age of eighteen he started to learn the trade of cabinet-maker,
which he continued until twenty-one years old. Next he proceeded to Wyandotte
for one Summer, whence he moved to Sandusky, and there resided a year. In the
Fall of 1849, Mr. Elliott returned to Delaware county, and, in the following
Spring, (1850,) in company with five associates, among them being Drs. Smith and
Hubbell, he started with horse-teams to tempt fortune in the Land of Gold.
Crossing overland to Cincinnati, they thence proceeded by boat to St. Louis,
whence they found their way to Kansas City, where they once more found
themselves on terra firma. The regular journey across the plains was now
commenced, with all its concomitant inconveniences, but after an extraordinarily
rapid transit the party finally arrived at Weaverville on July 26, 1850. The
first occupation entered into by our subject was making rockers for use in the
mines. At this he remained until the Fall, when he transferred his locale to the
mines at Diamond Springs, and there resided until the month of February, 1851.
At this juncture he moved to Benicia, Solano county, where he plied his
avocation of carpenter until the Great Fire of May 4, 1851, in San Francisco,
when he proceeded thither and embarked in the then fruitful labors of a
cabinetmaker. Remaining in that city until January, 1852, our subject then came
to Contra Costa county, and after sojourning for a short time in Martinez, he
took up his residence on Alamo creek, now known as Sycamore district, where he
has since continuously resided, reclaiming, as the years go by, the wild,
unbroken country, and causing it to blossom into a fair scene of prolific fields
and luxurious pasturage. In 1852, when Mr. Elliott took possession of his
property on the Alamo, he had but one hundred and sixty acres of land; to-day he
has seven hundred and seventeen acres, almost all of it being under cultivation.
In 1858, he built his present comfortable home, while, as if to add greater
value to his possessions, at the time of writing, men are engaged on his
property penetrating the earth, where a vein of excellent coal has been struck,
which at no distant date may prove a bonanza to Mr. Elliott, and an immense boon
to the section of the country in which he resides. He married in Oakland, May
15, 1864, Martha E. Dempster, a native of New York, and has two children: Lizzie
E. and Mark H.

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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