Marin-San Francisco-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Prince, N. J. 1820 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  N. J. Prince. Born in Cumberland county, Maine, October 8, 1820. Here he was
educated. When about eighteen or nineteen years old he went to sea and followed
it till he came to California, leaving Boston, Mass., March 4, 1850, and
arriving in San Francisco August 24th following. Remained in San Francisco till
October of that year, then went to the mines at a place now called Quartzville;
worked at mining till the Fall of 1852, then returned to San Francisco. In
February, 1853, he came to this township and located on a farm about two miles
north-east of Tomales, on the Bloomfield road. In 1862 he sold the ranch and
came to his present farm of three hundred and sixty acres, situated on Tomales
bay. Married Mary Doyle February, 1867. They have three children living, Henry
Augustus, Mary Eliza, Celestia Augusta.

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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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