Contra Costa-Nevada-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....McCabe, J. P. 1853 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

J. P. McCABE.—One of the most prosperous farmers of Township Number Five, whose
portrait appears in this work, was born in Dixon, Lee county, Illinois, June 15,
1839, and there resided and received a common school education until 1853, when,
in May of that year, he, with his parents, three brothers and two sisters,
.started with horse-teams across the plains to California, arriving in Sierra
county in August of that year. Remaining there but a short time, they proceeded
to Nevada county, and there resided until 1860, when Mr. McCabe, Sr., moved his
family to Napa county, where our subject finished his education at the
Collegiate School of Napa City. They then moved to this county, and located in
Township Number Five, in 1868. In 1873, the subject of this sketch purchased his
present beautiful and well-cultivated farm of three hundred and twenty acres,
where he now resides. Mr. McCabe has since purchased one hundred and sixty
acres, one-half mile from his home, and six hundred and forty acres near the
"Stone House," adjoining the Marsh Grant. Mr. McCabe has for a number of years
held the office of postmaster of Point of Timber. Was married, in Contra Costa
county, to Miss Maggie Andrews, a native of Illinois, by which union they have
two children: Lester Leroy and Rosie Edith.

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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