Marin County
Biographies
GEORGE DILLON
GEORGE DILLON. The subject of this sketch was born in Ireland March 12, 1826. He emigrated to the United States in 1846, settling in Tennessee, but afterwards moved to Missouri. In 1856 Mr. Dillon crossed the plains to California and settled near his present farm, but did not take up his residence on the land he now owns until 1859. For nearly a quarter of a century has Mr. Dillon been a resident of Marin county and Tomales township. That these years have been fraught with change, which have crept on year after year so slowly but surely that they were hardly perceptible, there is no doubt. Not only has the appearance of the country changed, but Mr. Dillon, too, bears the marks of time. But with what feelings of pride can we look back over all these years and now be able to say, that the subject of this sketch has so lived that now he is honored and respected by the people of this county, and beloved by his children and many friends. He resides on a beautiful ranch of nine hundred and six acres, which fringes the shores of the Pacific ocean. He married Matilda Blevings in 1854. She was born in Missouri, on the 24th of December, 1827. Their children are: William Riley, who was born at Fort Riley on the plains May 21, 1856; Fannie, Jerome, Ellen, George, Catherine, Joseph, Ann, John, and one deceased.
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880
Transcribed by Betty Wilson
ALBERT WARREN DUTTON
ALBERT WARREN DUTTON. Was born in Rockland county, Ohio, July 2, 1855. Emigrated to this State, with his father, Reed Dutton, in 1860, settling in Tomales, residing there and in San Francisco, till he came to Marshalls in 1876, to take charge of the railroad office as its station agent. He received his education in this State, and has the honor of being the first Wells, Fargo agent in Marshalls.
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880
Transcribed by Betty Wilson
GEORGE WASHINGTON DUTTON, M.D.
GEORGE WASHINGTON DUTTON. M.D. The subject of this sketch is of English descent, and a grandson of Captain Dutton, a soldier in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war, and was born in Sheldon, Franklin county, Vermont, on December 18, 1826. He received his primary education in the common schools of Vermont and New York and Ohio, and during the years 1844-5, he attended Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, partly paying his tuition and board with manual labor. A want of funds compelled him to leave the college, and he at once engaged in teaching school. At the commencement of the Mexican war in 1846, he enlisted as a private soldier in the Third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, Colonel S.R. Curtis, commanding, for a period of one year; but was detailed from the ranks to do duty in the medical department. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service, but remained with the army till the close of the war in a private capacity, and was engaged both in the commissary and medical departments. During this time, and in hospital service, he laid the foundation of surgical knowledge which with future study and experience has placed him at the head of his profession. In the Spring of 1849, he married J.M. McCauslen, daughter of Colonel W.C. McCaulsen of the United States army. In the latter part of 1851, he came to California and remained one year, then returned to Ohio, and about the last part of 1852, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Joseph Sheets at Steubenville, having previously attended the medical lectures one Winter at the University of New York, but not then with the view of practicing the medical profession. Mr. Dutton attended a course of medical lectures and human desections in the Winter of 1855-6 at the “University of Pennsylvania,” in Philadelphia, the oldest Medical College in the United States, the school having been established by Franklin and some of his contemporaries before the separation of the Colonies from Great Britain. Dr. Dutton commenced the practice of medicine and surgery in the Spring of 1856, at Independence, Ohio, coming to California from this place in 1860, and settled in Tomales, Marin county. He has continued to practice his profession here till the present writing, with the exception of the Winter of 1868-9, which was spent at the “University of Pennsylvania” in Philadelphia where he graduated in the medical department of the University in the Spring of 1869. His portrait appears in this work.
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880
Transcribed by Betty Wilson