Contra Costa-Stanislaus County CA Archives Biographies.....Walton, John P. 1807 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN P. WALTON. —Born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, June 8, 1807, and is the
son of Jesse and Mary (Hutchins) Walton. He was educated in Virginia, and
resided there until the year 1834, meanwhile having acquired the trade of
tanner. From the above year until 1839 he resided in Greene county, Georgia, and
then emigrated to Texas, where he followed the life of a trapper and hunter, at
the same time conducting a farm near Palestine, Anderson county. In February,
1856, in company with his two eldest sons, Mark A. and William H., he started
for California via New Orleans and Central America, arriving in San Francisco in
the month of April of the same year. Mr. Walton almost immediately proceeded to
the mines, and a twelve-month after came to the San Joaquin valley and leased a
farm; this, however, he left in November, 1859, and went to Stanislaus county,
where he lived until April, 1862. He then came to Contra Costa county, located
on his present place of one hundred and sixty acres, and is now engaged in
farming and fruit-raising in the Iron House district. Mr. Walton has been twice
married: in the first instance at his birthplace to Miss Mary Swanson, a native
of Virginia, by whom he had one child, since deceased. Married, secondly, in
Greene county, Georgia, Miss Almira Tuggle, a native of that State, by whom he
has had nine children. Of these, Mark A., John S., George T., and a daughter,
Millie Texanna, still survive. Our subject is now seventy-five years of age, and
it is his boast that he has never voted a Democratic ticket, save on two
occasions for the office of Justice of the Peace, while, besides being a
resident of the State of Texas at its admission to the Union, he was the second
County Clerk of Anderson county.

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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