Contra Costa County Biography

C.F. MAJERS

Transcribed by: Betty Wilson

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C. F. MAJERS, one of the well-known farmers of Contra Costa County, dates his 
birth February 22, 1831, in Madison County, Kentucky.  His mother, whose maiden 
name was Ellen Harris, was a native of Ohio, and is now aged seventy-four years; 
his father, Isham Harris, a native of Madison County, Kentucky, is a brick-mason 
by trade, and is still living, at age of eighty-five years, in Cass County, 
Missouri.  When the subject of this sketch was but ten years of age, he was 
taken by his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he grew up, attending 
school, etc.  At the age of twenty-five years he started for the land of gold, 
then apparently situated in the region of the golden sunset.  Leaving Kansas 
City, Missouri, May 1, 1854, with a train of several wagons and twenty-six 
persons, he worked his way by driving stock, and landed in Martinez November 1, 
1854; and ever since then he has been a farmer of Contra Costa County.  He has 
prospered in his business, and now has a fine residence and is enjoying a 
beautiful home, three miles from Pacheco in Ygnacio Valley.  This place of 263 
acres he purchased in 1880, known then as the old H.K.W. Clark�s place.  Clark 
was a great land lawyer in Oakland, who was accidentally shot on this place by 
his son.  Mr. Majers has put upon this place all the improvements now visible 
there.
            In 1867 he returned to Ohio and brought back with him to California 
his newly wedded wife, Sarah Darmon, a native of the Buckeye State, born October 
1, 1841; and they now have one son, by name Edward, who was born April 19, 1869. 
 Mr. Majers is a member of Pacheco Lodge, No. 117, I.O.O.F.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891