Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Glass, David 1818 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

DAVID GLASS.—This old pioneer of Contra Costa county, who has resided within its
limits since the year 1850, and has seen its progress from infancy to fruition,
is a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born March 4, 1818.
When a child he was taken by his parents to Harrison county, Ohio. There Mr.
Glass passed his boyhood, and received his education at the public schools. From
there he went westward in the year 1841, and located on the ground where now
stands the young city of Ottumwa, Wapello county, Iowa. He constructed the first
house of that now thriving town, and in 1844 was married to Eliza J. Hall. In
the month of March, 1850, accompanied by his wife and family, he started for
California, arriving at Placerville—then known by the ominous name of
Hangtown—August 1st of that year. After a short term of merchandising there, Mr.
Glass came direct to Contra Costa county, where he arrived in November, 1850,
and first settled about half a mile from the village of Walnut Creek, on land
now owned by Mr. Biggs, afterwards moving on to what is now the Hammitt place,
and re siding there nine years. He then purchased his present valuable estate of
seven hundred and eighteen acres, located three miles south of the village of
San Ramon, where he has built an elegant mansion, in which he resides,
surrounded by all the comforts of a happy home, and a large family, consisting
at present of seven children, Mr. Glass having lost two while living at
Placerville. Those living are as follows: Albert W., Clara, Annetta, Irena,
Frank L., Frederick and Holla C.

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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