Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Laughlin, M. N. 1821 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Laughlin, M. N. Born in Barboursville, Knox county, Kentucky, in 1821; his
father, Thomas Laughlin, was then Sheriff of that county. He afterward resided
in Whitney county, and about the year 1827 removed to what was then known as the
"Hiwasee purchase," in Tennessee, and settled in Monroe, now London [sic]
county. Here the subject of this sketch was principally raised. He graduated at
East Tennessee University in 1844, taught school several years, and in 1848
emigrated to Missouri. Married Mary E. Porter of Jackson county, in 1849, and
took up his residence in Mercer county. In 1854, crossed the plains with
ox-teams and settled and improved a farm on Cooper's El Molino grant, where he
remained until 1860 when it was taken from him. He then located in Mendocino
township, where he at present resides; owns six hundred acres of land and has
two children, Mary Ann Eliza, born in 1850, married Jasper McCracken in 1867;
and Emily Elzira, born in 1854.

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Mendocino Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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