Marin-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Strain, Henry 1826 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Henry Strain. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait will be found in this
volume, was born in the county Monaghan, Ireland, in the year 1826, and there
resided until he reached sixteen years of age. At this time he emigrated to
America and settled in New York City, where he worked at the hatter's trade for
three years; he then went to Connecticut and found employment in the Smithfield
Cotton Manufacturing Company until he embarked for California. On March 5, 1852,
he sailed in the steamer "Prometheus" for Nicaragua; thence per sailing vessel
to the Isthmus. In Panama he was detained three months from an attack of fever,
which, having departed, he sailed for San Francisco, where he arrived in the
month of July. Mr. Strain at once proceeded to Hangtown, now Placerville, but on
account of ill-health only worked in the mines for one month; seceding from this
occupation he commenced that of prospecting, which he continued till he left the
district. On March 17, 1853, he arrived in Bolinas, and after teaming for
something like two years for the mill company, he began running the steamboat
"Union." Mr. Strain next returned to Bolinas and was variously employed for
about two years, when, in 1857, he purchased a portion of his present farm, and
began cutting alder trees for fire-wood, which he prosecuted for two more years.
From these small beginnings Mr. Strain gradually worked himself into the
dairying business, until he is now the possessor of a fine farm of two hundred
and fifty-eight acres and forty milch cows. In 1868 he was elected Justice of
the Peace for Bolinas township, and is at present one of the Trustees of the
Bolinas School District. Married in August, 1851, Marcella Roche, by whom he has
eight living children: —Henry Frank, William, Winfield Scott, Henrietta, Ella,
Robert Everett, Lillie and Anna Louise.

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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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