Contra Costa-Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Warmcastle, F. M. 1815 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

HON. F. M. WARMCASTLE.—Born November 16, 1815, at the town of Butler, Butler
county, Pennsylvania; went to Pittsburgh at the age of seventeen, remained there
some three years; went to Maysville, Kentucky, remained there during the
intermediate time, until the year 1839, spending the Winters down in the
southwest flat-boating and distributing agricultural implements; went to
Liberty, Clay county, Missouri, early in 1840, remained there until 1841, when
he engaged in manufacturing wagons, plows, etc., then located in Platte City,
county seat of Platte county, Missouri, read law, and in the year  1842,
emigrated to Nott county, Missouri, and was admitted to the Bar at the Spring
session of the Circuit Court of Savannah, the county seat of Andrew county,
Missouri, Judge D. R. Atchinson presiding, Peter H. Burnett, Circuit Attorney;
he located the same year in that portion of Nott county, afterwards, in the year
1844, organized as the county of Atchison, practiced law at Linden, the county
seat of that county, and represented the county in the Missouri Legislature, as
the first representative, in the year 1846. He joined the volunteer service, as
First Lieutenant of Captain Creig's company of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, in
the Spring of 1847, was mustered into the service of the United States at Fort
Leavenworth, and was appointed Acting Assistant Commissary of Subsistence; the
command was ordered to the Indian country to overawe the Indian tribes, there
being no military force in the direction of Oregon, the Rifle Regiment raised a
few years previous for that purpose having been ordered to Mexico. He remained
in the Indian country until the Winter of 1848, was mustered out of service at
Fort Leavenworth, emigrating to California in the year 1849, overland, and was
among the first immigrants to arrive at Sacramento, about the middle of August.
He went to the mines on the Yuba river, stayed there until the early rains, and,
returning to Sacramento, remained there a short time. About that time the
election to ratify the Constitution of the new State came off, and the election
immediately followed for State officers and members of the Legislature. Mr.
Warmcastle then went to Benicia and crossed the Straits of Carquinez at
Martinez, and from there, through what is now Contra Costa and Alameda counties,
by the Mission of San Jose to the city of San Jose, remaining there a spectator
of the daily sessions of the Legislature, and becoming somewhat acquainted with
many of the men who afterwards occupied official positions in the State. He
returned to Martinez, February, 1850. In the Spring, the several counties in the
State having been organized by the Legislature at its first session, he was
elected County Judge, and held the position until December, 1853, when he
resigned, having been elected to the Assembly, at the close of the session
resuming the practice of the law. He married at San Francisco in the month of
February, 1855, resided in Martinez until the Fall of 1855, when he located in
the country some six miles from Martinez, on a farm, that he bought in 1852, and
improved; the farm is situated one mile south of the town of Pacheco, not then
in existence. He was elected to the Assembly in the year 1857, and was elected
to the State Senate in the district composed of the counties of Contra Costa and
San Joaquin, in the Fall of 1860. Made two trips to the East, between the years
1870, '74, being absent East about one and a half years. He resided on the farm
until 1877, when he was elected District Attorney for Contra Costa county, and
held the office for two years, since which time he has been engaged in the
practice of the law, and living in Martinez.

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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