Sonoma-Mendocino-Lake County CA Archives Biographies.....Laughlin, James H. 1819 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Laughlin, James H. Was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, January 11, 1819.
Here he received his education and lived on a farm until nineteen years of age,
when he accompanied his parents to Van Buren county, Iowa. At this place Mr.
Laughlin married, December 22, 1853, Frances E. Briggs, a native of Windsor
county, Vermont. He followed farming in this locality until April, 1854, when,
in company with his wife, mother, and a brother and sister, he crossed the
plains to this State, bringing with them a drove of two hundred head of cattle.
They arrived on Cache creek October 10, 1854. Here Mr. Laughlin engaged in
farming until the following September, when he came to Sonoma county and settled
on his present place, at Mark West station. Here the subject of our sketch and
his belongings camped, using the same gear as that which had been brought into
requisition on the plains. Necessity compelled them thus to be housed, for
lumber had yet to be cut out of the forests and transported to the spot. This
was done in about three weeks, and soon a simple, clapboard house sprung into
existence. To-day, on the old site, there stands a finer dwelling than is to be
found in the county. Mr. Laughlin has large interests in Mendocino county, and
is also a large stockholder in the Santa Rosa Bank, as well as being a director
of that institution. His living children are: Sarah, born January 20, 1856;
Annie A., born January 23, 1863; James H., born July 24,1866; Frank W., born
November 15, 1869; Grant A., born July 23, 1870; Clyde B., born December 1,
1871. Two children have died, Francis M. and Albert.

Additional Comments:
Russian River Township

Extracted from:

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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