Marin-Sacramento-Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Bunn, George 1820 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  George Bunn. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in this
work, is a native of Hunterdon county, New Jersey, having been born there
January 28, 1820. Here he received his early education, and resided until 1852,
on the 5th day of May of which year he sailed in the steamer "Northern Light" to
Greytown, via Nicaragua route, where he suffered detention for several days.
Prosecuting his journey to Del Sur, on the Pacific, he found there was no vessel
waiting for the conveyance of passengers to California thus he was compelled
once more to wait. It was not until the end of four weeks that the steamer "S.
S. Lewis" came into port, and in her Mr. Bunn took passage to San Francisco, and
landed there July 7, 1852. From this city, he almost immediately started in
quest of fortune. He proceeded to Sacramento, and there meeting A. Beach, he
obtained the promise from him of a situation as superintendent of the
construction of a quartz mill to be erected in Spring Valley, Butte county.
Thither the subject of our sketch proceeded, but finding quartz mining on the
decline, and no employment for him, he did not allow the grass to grow under his
feet, so to speak, but forthwith made his way to Sonoma county, and in the Fall
of 1853 commenced farming on a portion of the Cotate rancho. After remaining
there two years, he moved to Marin county, and for one year farmed on the
Sanford & Stone place, near Valley Ford, when he purchased the property on which
he now resides. Mr. Bunn is one of the founders of the Bank of Tomales, of which
he is a stockholder and director. He married, February 9, 1871, Frances E. Ray,
a native of the city of New York.

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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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