Dye, Job F.

Job Francis Dye (1810-1873) was a frontiersman/trapper who came to the Santa Cruz area in 1840. After a time spent elsewhere, he returned to the area, and died in Corralitos.

• History Pages: 7 - The Frontiersmen
• Santa Cruz: The Early Years (1980 book), by Leon Rowland [multiple mentions]
• Job F. Dye, "Recollections of a Pioneer of California", Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel; May 1, 1869, 1:6-7 (part 1); May 8, 1869, 1:7-8 (part 2); May 15, 1869, 1:7-8 (part 3); May 22, 1869, 1:7-8 (part 4).
• "DYE" [notice of Nov. 15 death], Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel, November 18, 1905, 14:5
• Son Samuel Newton Dye (1854-1919) is shown as a property owner on the 1889 Hatch Map.
• John L. Chase, The Sidewalk Companion to Santa Cruz Architecture (4th ed. 2023), Chapter Four, entry (33), page 101.