San Luis Obispo County Biographies

JOHN McGLASHAN

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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JOHN McGLASHAN, a citizen of the village of Arroyo Grande, was born in 1835, 
in Scotland. His parents emigrated with their family to Fulton County, New 
York, in 1843; and John was therefore raised in the Empire State, receiving his 
education in an old log school- house. Until twenty-three years of age he lived 
on his father's farm ; and then, in the year 1858, lie crossed the plains to Las 
Vegas, New Mexico, then a small settlement. Next he mined for a time in Colorado, 
and then came on to California, in the fall of 1858. At first he engaged in the 
mason's trade, which he learned in New York State. In 1875 he began farming in the 
Arroyo Grande, where he now lives. He has sixty-six acres on the Monte, principally 
in beans, and is doing well. He has been successful in almost everything that he has 
attempted to raise out of the soil on this place, fruit and vegetables being especially 
productive. He took a premium at the county fairs in 1889, on the white radish, the 
weight of which is recorded as being seventeen and a half pounds. 

Mr. McGlashan was married in 1865, to Miss Rooker, and has four sons: John, who 
is now married and farming on the college grant at Santa Ynez; David, Joseph and 
Charles, � all at home. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.