Santa Clara County Biographies


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G. B. McNEAL
 
            G. B. McNeal, one of Santa Clara County�s worthy and highly esteemed 
citizens, was born in Bangor, Maine, December 14, 1837.  After receiving a 
common-school education in his native State, he engaged in the lumber business 
with his father.  At twenty-one years of age he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and 
engaged in lumbering.  He then went South, where for a time he managed a 
plantation, but afterward returned to Minnesota and resumed the lumber business. 
 In 1859 he sailed from St. Paul for California, landing in San Francisco July 5 
of that year.  Like the majority of new-comers in the early days, Mr. McNeal 
went to the mines.  He was there engaged in getting out timber for mining 
purposes.  At the breaking out of the late war Mr. McNeal enlisted in the Union 
Army and served for about three years.  At the close of the Rebellion he settled 
in Alameda County, California, and engaged in farming.
            In October, 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary May.  To 
them have been born four children, one boy and three girls.  The family are 
consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. McNeal is a member of 
the A. O. U. W. Lodge, and in politics he is a Prohibitionist.  The family 
residence is situated on the Berryessa road, where Mr. McNeal owns twenty acres 
of fine land, which is devoted to fruit culture.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 308
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy