Contra Costa-Nevada-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....McCabe, Thomas 1810 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

THOMAS McCABE. — This old and esteemed citizen of Contra Costa county, whose
portrait appears in this work, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, May 28, 1810,
and is now in his seventy-third year. He was educated and resided in his
birthplace until eighteen years of age; he then engaged in boating on the Ohio,
and afterwards on the Wabash river in Indiana in 1830, where he remained for two
years and united in marriage with his present wife. He next moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, where he followed farming for four years; the balance of the
time until 1850 he spent in several different counties of the same State. May
8th of the above year he, with quite a large company of others, started to cross
the plains to the New Dorado, Mr. McCabe being elected captain of the train, and
after an uneventful trip of three months, arrived in Placerville, August 3d of
the same year. Our subject immediately engaged in mining, which he followed
until the Fall of 1852, when he returned to his home in Illinois, and in the
following Spring came back with his family to this coast, and located at Snow
Point, Nevada county, where he engaged in mining until 1859. When we next find
him, it is in Solano county, for three years; the succeeding five years were
passed on a ranch in Napa county. In the Fall of 1867, Mr. McCabe moved to this
county, and located on his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one mile
from Brent-wood, where he is now enjoying the full blessings of a well and
prosperously spent life, having in view of his dwelling the bright and pleasant
homes of his sons, who are now substantial farmers of the Point of Timber
district. Married, in Fountain, Indiana, January 13, 1831, Miss Maria Peacock, a
native of Ohio. By this union they have nine children living, and twenty-six
grandchildren. Their family consists of Joseph, Henry, George, Edward, Frank,
Annie (now Mrs. George Fellows), Jane (now Mrs. Thomas Stuart), Mary (now Mrs.
Fly) and Ella.

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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