Contra Costa County Biography

DIXON H. MACQUIDDY 

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Dixon H. MACQuiddy has been actively and successfully identified with the 
business interests of California as a contractor and builder since boyhood, and 
is recognized today as one of the foremost contractors and builders of the Bay 
cities. He was born in Traver, Kings County, California, March 19, 1887, a son 
of John T. MacQuiddy, a native of Missouri, and Pauline S. MacQuiddy, a native 
of Tennessee. Dixon H. MacQuiddy was educated in the public and high schools of 
Hanford and Stockton. Finishing his schooling he went to Sonoma County, where he 
was identified with his father and where he learned his trade. In 1906 Mr. 
MACQuiddy moved to Concord, where he followed his trade, and erected many of the 
substantial buildings of that town. He erected the First Presbyterian Church, 
the Bacon block, and other fine buildings, as well as many of the finest homes 
in Concord. In November, 1914, he removed to Pittsburg, where he maintained an 
office as well as a branch office in Davis, California. Mr. MACQuiddy confines 
his operations largely to Solano and Contra Costa counties. In politics he is a 
Democrat. Fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Pacheco, and also of 
the Moose and Eagles. His children are Dixon Leroy, born in 1908, and Everett 
Merle, born in 1912. Mr. MACQuiddy has a partner, Mr. C. C. Bean, who has in 
charge the Davis office. Owing to their constantly increasing business, the firm 
has prospered with gratifying success, and has recently opened the M. & B. Paint 
& Building Material Company in Pittsburg. Many of the most attractive buildings 
in Contra Costa and Solano counties testify to the ability and skill of Mr. 
MACQuiddy and his partner, and they are well entitled to a foremost place among 
the builders of Contra Costa County, for they are representative men and 
respected citizens.
 
Source: "The History of Contra  Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
pp. 563-564.