Contra Costa-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Pacheco, Fernando 1818 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

FERNANDO PACHECO.—The subject of this narrative, whose portrait appears in this
work, is the son of Don Salvio and J. (Flores) Pacheco, and was born in the
Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, May 30, 1818, where he resided until 1835, or
until he attained the age of seventeen. At that time he came to settle in the
Diablo valley, about three hundred yards southwest of Concord. He brought some
cattle with him, and remained with them for some time during the year. In the
year 1834, Don Salvio, the father of our subject, received the Grant of the
Monte del Diablo Rancho, and settled near the site of the present village of
Concord, where he resided until his death, August 6, 1876. In the year 1845, our
subject brought his family to Contra Costa county, and here he resided until
1851, when he moved to his present residence, where he owns fifteen hundred
acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Our subject has not
held any public office, but his father had filled every position of trust in the
gift of the Mexican Government, save that of Governor; but the lack of public
office is by no means a criterion of Mr. Pacheco's inability to assume such
functions had he sought them; he is a man of much ability and shrewdness,
generous in disposition, affable in manner, and possessed of natural
accomplishments. Being of the enormous weight of three hundred and seventy
pounds—in 1870 he turned the scales at four hundred and fifty—Mr. Pacheco is
unable to move about as he would wish, yet his influence is felt, although
absent in person, and there is no one to say a word against this son of one of
the original settlers of Contra Costa. Of the doings on the Rancho in early
times, we speak in our history of Township Number Three; to recognize the
immense herds of those days, we refer the reader to that portion of our work; it
is to his credit, be it remarked, that he still possesses so great a competency
above his less fortunate contemporaries.

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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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