Contra Costa-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Kapp, Frederick 1833 - 1882
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

FREDERICK KAPP (deceased).—The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in
this work, was born in Hagerstown, Washington county, Maryland, November 27,
1833. At the age of nine years his parents moved to Alabama, and there he
received his education at a private school, afterwards serving a term of five
years at the printer's trade. In December, 1849, our subject moved west and
located in Camden, Arkansas, and there followed his trade for three years.
November, 1852, Mr. Kapp entered the employ of J. West Martin, to aid in driving
a drove of cattle and sheep to California, and after a weary trip consuming over
one year, they arrived in Haywards, Alameda county. A few years later he began
farming and stock raising on the San Lorenzo creek, where he dwelt some twelve
years. In 1865, Mr. Kapp sold out and engaged in farming with his uncle, Mr.
Martin, in Alameda county, where he resided until the Fall of 1875, when he, in
company with W. D. and W. B. English, purchased their large tract of land
consisting of three thousand five hundred acres located three miles north of
Concord, where our subject resided, surrounded by his wife and family and
enjoyed the fruits of a well-spent and prosperous life, having the esteem and
confidence of the community in which he lived; but was called away in the full
bloom of manhood and in the prime of life. Mr. Kapp died February 5, 1882. He
was united in marriage in Livermore, Alameda county, May 25, 1S75, to Miss Lucy
Belle Clarkson, a native of Missouri, born September 20, 1850, by this union
there are four children: John English, born February 19, 1876; Weenie, born
October 23, 1877; Bell, born January 20, 1879; and Kathleen, born November 16, 1880.

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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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