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EUGENE S. McCOMB
The son of one of San Joaquin
County’s pioneer settlers, Eugene S. McComb was born near Woodbridge, September
15, 1865. His parents were John and
Elizabeth (Lane) McComb, the former of Scotch descent, while the mother was a
native of Tennessee; both are now deceased.
John McComb crossed the plains in 1861, arriving in San Joaquin with a
steer and a cow yoked together, drawing his prairie schooner. He settled near New
Hope and followed farming, being foreman of the DeVrier
ranch for many years. Later he engaged
in lumbering in the redwoods in Humboldt County, and there he passed away about
twenty years ago. These worthy pioneer
parents had five children: Eugene S., of
this sketch; Jerome B.; William; Mrs. Mattie George; and Alden McComb,
deceased, who was formerly chief of police at San Mateo.
Eugene S. McComb attended school at
Arcata, Humboldt County, and as early as nine years of age began to work in a sawmill there. At
the age of sixteen he returned to San Joaquin County and worked as a rancher for
a time, and then went to San Francisco and learned his trade of bricklayer,
which he has followed ever since in various places in central California. In 1906 he came to Stockton and worked for
the pioneer brick contractors Eli Confer, Ed Hanke, and George
Summerville. He was foreman on the
following buildings in Stockton: Flint
& Bigelow Block, Knutzen Block, T & D
Theater, Congregational Church, McCoy Block, and the addition to the
California-Moline Plow Works. In Lodi he
worked on many of the buildings erected in the early days, and in later years
on the Corey Block and the Post Office Building. He worked on the Hotel Modesto, in Modesto,
and on many buildings in San Francisco before the fire. For four years during the war he was in the
employ of the Stockton Fire & Enamel Brick Company, and with the Hoffman
Brick Company.
Mr. McComb’s
marriage united him with Miss Mary E. Troy, a native of Ireland, and they are
the parents of five children: Frances
P., Mrs. Marie Dundero, Mrs. Elizabeth Ivy, Raymond
(deceased) and Delmar.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1099-1100. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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