Marin-Tuolumne-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Cairns, John 1803 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Doctor John Cairns. Was born in Scotland, August 24, 1803. After finishing his
education at the University of St. Andrews he acted as private tutor in several
families. In 1830 was elected Master of the Grammar School of Lochmaben, which
office he held for twelve years. Resigning this he left for China, passing two
months in London, and being wrecked on the south coast of England. Arriving in
China he located in Hong Kong, and edited the Hong Kong Register, a newspaper
published in the city of Victoria in that colony, for six years, and then came
to California in company with A. L. Inglis and James Stephenson, bringing with
them about thirty Chinese, with whom they went to Tuolumne county, and there
founded that well-known place, Chinese Camp. After remaining here for three
months he was engaged in the office of Everett & Co., of San Francisco. At the
end of six months, during which he remained with them, losing everything,
including a valuable library, in the fire of June 4,1850, he commenced farming,
being associated with his former partner, A. L. Inglis, in Gordon valley, Solano
county, residing there for two years. The subject of this sketch next purchased
a farm near Fulton Station, Sonoma county, and sojourned there for ten years; he
afterwards lived in Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, for two years, and then moved to
San Francisco, where he entered upon the study of medicine (more as a recreation
than as a necessity), which he soon mastered, and obtained his diploma in 1867,
at the green old age of sixty-four years. In 1873 the doctor took up his
residence in Saucelito, where he has held the office of Justice of the Peace for
four and a half years. He married, November 1, 1853, Jane Thomson, a native of
Scotland.

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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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