Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Kirkwood, Nicholas 1832 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

NICHOLAS KIRKWOOD.—Born in Scotland, near Glasgow, December 15, 1832. He resided
in his birth-place, was educated at the common schools, and afterwards learned
the trade of machinist until nineteen years of age. July, 1851, found Mr.
Kirkwood on a sailing vessel in the port of Greenock, bound for the United
States, via Cape Horn, coming direct to San Francisco, where he arrived February
22, 1852. He first found employment with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, on
board one of their vessels running from San Francisco to Panama, and remained in
that situation until 1857. He then purchased his present property of one hundred
and forty acres, in Diablo valley, one mile west of Clayton, and has since
acquired eighty acres more. He went there to reside Sepember 15, 1857, and is
now engaged in farming and viticulture. Mr. Kirkwood never married.

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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