Marin-Calaveras-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Fairbanks, W. R. 1838 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  W. R. Fairbanks. Was born December 29, 1838, at Hyde Park, Vermont. He was
made an orphan when but a mere child, and at the age of ten he, in company with
his cousins, the Heyman boys, came to California via the Horn and arrived at San
Francisco on the 14th of May of that year. He and his cousins proceeded at once
to the Mokelumne Hill mines, where the subject of this sketch remained until
1855 when he went to New York, where he resided for ten years, when he returned
to this coast and took up his residence in Tomales, this county. He then owned
and ran the stage line between the above-named place and Petaluma for a term of
seven years. In 1873 he purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty
acres, located one and a half miles east of Tomales. Mr. Fairbanks married
January 22, 1872, Belinda Scanlin, a native of Ireland. Their children are:
George Henry, born November 9, 1872; William B., born September 29, 1874; Joseph
F., born March 26, 1876; and Mary E., born March 21, 1878.

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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