Marin-Shasta-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Crandell, William O. L. 1829 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  William O. L. Crandell. Was born in Charleston, South Carolina, January 7,
1829, and when ten months old accompanied his parents to Providence, Rhode
Island, where he was educated and resided until he attained the age of eleven
years, when he moved to Cooperstown, Otsego county, New York, and there
completed his schooling. At the age of seventeen he began school-teaching, an
occupation he followed for five consecutive Winters. At eighteen he entered upon
the study of medicine, receiving his diploma and being admitted to practice at
the age of twenty-two. In January, 1853, started for California via Panama, and
arrived in San Francisco February 5th of that year. He at once proceeded to the
mines in Shasta county and there sojourned for a year, when, returning to San
Francisco, he engaged for a year in clerking in a store after which he went back
to the mines, on this occasion to Siskiyou county, and there tarried for two
years. In 1857 he commenced merchandizing at Hamburg Bar, on Klamath river, an
occupation he pursued for two years; he then returned to San Francisco, and
after a short time proceeded to Alameda county, where he engaged in farming and
fruit raising. In 1865 he paid a visit to the Eastern States of two years'
duration, and then came back for a like period to Alameda county. In 1870 he
settled in Marin county at Olema, where he held the office of Justice of the
Peace and Notary Public until 1880. In 1872 was elected a Trustee of the Garcia
School District, since when he has been clerk of the Board. Married Dolly Maria
Weeks October 19, 1848.

Additional Comments:
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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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