Contra Costa-Tuolumne County CA Archives Biographies.....Hiller, Edwin Weed 1828 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

EDWIN WEED HILLER.— Born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, June 7, 1828. He resided
there until December, 1843, when he learned the carpenter's trade. In February,
1846, he went to Watertown, Middlesex county, same State, where he was engaged
at his trade for two years. He then removed to Milford, Hillsborough county, New
Hampshire, hut remained there only a short time—for, on hearing of the Gold
excitement in California, he returned to his native place, and after ten days
there sailed in the ship Aurora on January 9, 1849, for this coast. The passage
around the Horn occupied six months, arriving at San Francisco July 1st. On
landing he followed his trade for six weeks, and then started for Morgan's Bar,
on the Tuolumne river, and there embarked in mining, which he followed until
December, 1852. He then returned to San Francisco, and from there came to Contra
Costa county, first locating at San Pablo, where he remained one year, at the
expiration of which he moved to Martinez, where he has since resided. Mr. Hiller
is a member of the Pioneer's Association, and has been Coroner and Public
Administrator since 1872, and Deputy Assessor since 1874. In 1859 our subject
purchased his present beautiful place, on which he built a residence, on the
west side of Martinez on what is known as Island Hill. He married May 30, 1858,
Mary C. Burdett, a native of Nantucket, Massachusetts, by whom there was one
child, now deceased.

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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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