Contra Costa-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Hernandez, Joaquin 1839 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOAQUIN HERNANDEZ.—Born in San Jose, July 3,1839, and afterwards lived on the
family ranch near Los Gatos, Santa Clara county. In the year 1855, his father
sold the family estate to James Alexander Forbes for twenty thousand dollars,
and moved to Lower California, our subject returning at the end of two years,
leaving his relatives there. He now came direct to Contra Costa county, and
after following different occupations until April, 1859, he came to Concord and
opened the first business in the village, there being then but two or three
other houses. Married in Santa Clara, November 11, 1877, Custodia Avila, a
native of California, and has three children: Frederico, Joaquin and Rosa.

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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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