Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....McMaster, Job C. 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOB C. McMASTER.—The subject of this sketch was born in Sullivan, Hancock
county, Maine, June 10, 1822, and is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Cashman)
McMaster. When about two years of age his parents moved to Etna, Penobscot
county, same State, and there resided for six years, when Mr. McMaster, with his
parents, went to Pittsfield, Somerset county, where he remained until the year
1842, when he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he learned the trade of
carpenter, which he followed until he came to California, together with the
Revs. Joseph H. and W. W. Smith and about fifty others, starting January 9,
1849, from Boston on the brig Forest, arriving at San Francisco, July 6th of the
same year. After following his trade for eighteen months in the above-named
city, he returned to his old home in Maine, remained there six months, and again
came to the Pacific Coast, via the Isthmus of Panama. After a few weeks spent in
San Francisco, he came to Contra Costa county, arriving in December, 1851, and
located on the place where Antioch now stands. We may add that on his first
visit to California he went to Antioch, in company with W. W. Smith, with whom
he laid out the town. On his second visit he was mostly engaged in stock-raising
and butchering, while he was one of the first who embarked in the dairy business
in Antioch. Mr. McMaster also formed a company for making brick as long ago as
1852. In 1853 our subject was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors, and
was serving at the time when the office was abolished. From the year 1870 to
1872 he held the office of Town Marshal of Antioch, and in the Fall of 1873 was
again elected to the Board of Supervisors for Township Number Five, an office he
now has the honor of holding. Married in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 10,
1851, Harriet Bacon, a native of Sullivan, Maine, by which union two children
were born, viz.: Miranda M. (now Mrs. J. P. Abbott, of Antioch,) and Andrew J.
(deceased).

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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