Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Austin, Hiram 1820 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Hiram Austin. Was born in Portage county, Ohio, November 27, 1820, and there
resided, attended school and worked on his father's farm for the first few years
of his life; teaching school for a time when but seventeen. His taste running in
the direction of mechanical studies, at the age of twenty he commenced
surveying. In 1852 he left Portage for Park county, Indiana, and here began the
dairying and cheese-making business, combining therewith some engineering and
surveying. He resided there for four years, when he moved to Columbia county,
Wisconsin, where he opened a prairie farm and resided until 1859, when he moved
to Macoupin county, Illinois, and there embarked in farming and surveying. In
December, 1861, he came to California via Panama, and at once took up a
residence in Marin county. He engaged in farming in Bolinas for three years,
when, in 1864, he was elected to be County Surveyor on the Republican ticket. In
1865 he moved his residence to San Rafael. Mr. Austin has been County Surveyor
until the election of 1879, and during his terms of office has done much
valuable service, among others the completion of a very correct and handsome
county map.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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