Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Ivory, M. B. 1831 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

M. B. IVORY.—The subject of this sketch was born in Erie county, Pennsylvania,
November 30,1831, and resided in his birth-place until attaining his majority.
At the age of twenty-one years he went West to seek his fortune in the pine
forests of Wisconsin, and embarked in the lumber business for five years, at the
end of which he returned to his native home. On September 20, 1858, he started
for California, via New York and Panama, and arrived in San Francisco October
16th of the same year. Remaining a short time in the metropolis, Mr. Ivory came
to this county, which has since proved his home, located in Green valley, on
part of the place now known as the "Cook Ranch," and resided there until 1871.
In the Fall of that year he was elected to the position of Sheriff of Contra
Costa county, and took his office in March, 1872; was re-elected to the same
office in 1874, filling it with credit to himself and satisfaction to his
constituents. In 1873 he sold his farm in Green valley, and at the expiration of
his term as Sheriff, in 1876, paid a visit to his old home at the East,
consuming some four months in the same. On his return to this coast he located
in San Francisco for a short time, when, in November, 1878, Mr. Ivory was
appointed, by the Clay Street Bank of San Francisco, superintendent of their
present ranch of over thirteen thousand acres, better known as the "Marsh
Grant." He resides in the historic "Stone House" on the above ranch, while it is
safe to say there are but few men in this county better known or more highly
respected than the subject of our memoir. He was married in San Francisco
December 15, 1874, to Mrs. Fillmore, a native of Massachusetts.

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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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