Marin-Butte-Yuba County CA Archives Biographies.....Gibson, J. C. 1829 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  J. C. Gibson. Was born in Upper Canada in the year 1829, his parents being
natives of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. In 1836 he accompanied them to Belvidere,
Boone county, Illinois, and there received his early education and resided until
the Fall of 1848, when he moved to Yankee settlement, Clayton county, Iowa. In
January, 1852, he left Iowa for California via Cape Horn, in the ship
"Racehound," the voyage occupying one hundred and fifty-two days. In the month
of July, having arrived in San Francisco, Mr. Gibson essayed to try his luck in
the mines, going first to Forbestown, Butte county, where he sojourned for six
months, but as there were no paying diggings there he proceeded to Strawberry
valley, Yuba county, where he mined for a year without making anything. We next
find Mr. Gibson engaged in merchandising, a business he followed until 1869,
when, finding the mines being gradually exhausted, he moved his family to
Bolinas, Marin county, and commenced merchandising there in the Spring of 1870,
which business he still follows. In 1875 he was elected a Supervisor of Marin
county; in 1876 was appointed postmaster at Bolinas. Married, in the year 1859,
at Strawberry valley, Sarah Adelaide Gasherie, by whom he has four children,
George Lewis, Ida, Carrie, and Richard.

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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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