Marin-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Buchanan, John  1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  John Buchanan. Born in county Antrim, Ireland, January, 1827. Came to America
in 1844, arriving at Philadelphia in time to witness the great riot in that city
on July 6th of that year. Mr. B. first made a permanent settlement in Dearborn
county, Indiana, where he remained from 1844 till 1851; then came to this State
via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco in July, 1852. He went to the middle
fork of the American river in El Dorado county, where he engaged in mining till
April, 1853, at which time he came to Tomales, settling on what is now known as
the Dr. G. W. Dutton ranch. In 1857 he came to his present ranch of three
hundred and fifty acres. Married Jane Gilchrist in 1860. She was born in
Scotland. John, William, James, and Maggie A., are their children.

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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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