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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

CAPTAIN I. G. MESSEC is a native of Macon, Georgia, and a California pioneer of
1849, who came to the State from Texas, via El Paso and Yuma. He was a soldier
of the Mexican war, fought under General Taylor, and was one of the noted
brigade of Texas Rangers.

  Upon his arrival in California he engaged in mining and also owned and
operated, on a large scale, pack trains into the mining regions of Humboldt and
Trinity counties. During the year of 1858-'59 he accomplished the transfer of
the Trinity and Mad river, Humboldt and Elk river Indians to the Round Valley
Reservation, which he had been commissioned to do by the governor of California.
This was not successfully accomplished without some fighting, but finally he
located about 400 of them.

  In 1860-'61 he served as Sheriff of Trinity county. After this he engaged in
mining, on a large scale, at Virginia City, Nevada. He then spent four years in
San Francisco, where he figured prominently in local politics and served on a
commission that opened new Montgomery street. In the development of the great
Paniment mines he worked a force of over 500 men, at an expenditure of about
$2,000,000. The years 1878 and 1879 found him at Bodie, California. He also was
Notary Public, and in 1882 to 1886 was Sergeant-at-Arms of the California State
Senate.

  He came to the Santa Clara valley, California, in 1880, and has since been
engaged in stock-raising on his Lone Tree ranch, which is divided by the Santa
Clara and San Benito county lines.

  Captain Messec married Miss Lucy J. Kellogg in 1856, a most estimable lady. No
man in central and northern California is more favorably known or has a wider
circle of friends than the venerable pioneer of 1849, our subject, Captain Messec.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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