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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  George Washington Dutton, M. D. The subject of this sketch is of English
descent, and a grandson of Captain Dutton, a soldier in the Continental army
during the Revolutionary war, and was born in Sheldon, Franklin county, Vermont,
on December 18, 1826. He received his primary education in the common schools of
Vermont and New York and Ohio, and during the years 1844-5, he attended Oberlin
College, at Oberlin, Ohio, partly paying his tuition and board with manual
labor. A want of funds compelled him to leave the college, and he at once
engaged in teaching school. At the commencement of the Mexican war in 1846, he
enlisted as a private soldier in the Third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, Colonel
S. R. Curtis, commanding, for a period of one year; but was detailed from the
ranks to do duty in the medical department. He" was honorably discharged at the
expiration of his term of service, but remained with the army till the close of
the war in a private capacity, and was engaged both in the commissary and
medical departments. During this time, and in hospital service, he laid the
foundation of surgical knowledge which with future study and experience has
placed him at the head of his profession. In the Spring of 1849, he married J.
M. McCauslen, daughter of Colonel W. C. McCauslen of the United States army. In
the latter part of 1851, he came to California and remained one year, then
returned to Ohio, and about the last part of 1852, commenced the study of
medicine with Dr. Joseph Sheets at Steubenville, having previously attended the
medical lectures one Winter at the University of New York, but not then with the
view of practicing the medical profession. Mr. Dutton attended a course of
medical lectures and human desections in the Winter of 1855-6 at the "University
of Pennsylvania," in Philadelphia, the oldest Medical College in the United
States, the school having been established by Franklin and some of his
contemporaries before the separation of the Colonies from Great Britian. Dr.
Dutton commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in the Spring of 1856, at
Independence, Ohio, coming to California from this place in 1860, and settled in
Tomales, Marin county. He has continued to practice his profession here till the
present writing, with the exception of the Winter of 1868-9, which was spent at
the "University of Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia where he graduated in the
medical department of the University in the Spring of 1869. His portrait appears
in this work.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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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