Marin County
Biographies
WILLIAM DARIUS FREEMAN
WILLIAM DARIUS FREEMAN. Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, September 27, 1827. When about seventeen years of age he moved to McHenry county, Illinois, traveling all the way by land in company with his parents. In 1854 he crossed the plains, arriving on the 27th day of September, and first settled in Amador county; he then came to the ranch now owned by Mr. Hubbell, and in 1864 came to his present farm, where he has since lived, having erected his house in 1877. Married, September 15, 1850, Mary Halstead, a native of Canada, by whom there are twelve children, viz: Emil R., George A., William F., Albert J., Henry D., James L., Orin D., Lillian R., Elmer J., Warren W., Nellie E., Leona M.
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
HUGH A. BOYLE
HUGH A. BOYLE. Born in St. Louis, Mo., September 26, 1843. Was educated at the St. Louis University, and was a member of the graduating class of that institution in the year 1862. At the age of eighteen years he emigrated to California via the Missouri river to Fort Benton, through Dakota, Idaho and Oregon, arriving in San Francisco October, 1862, where he creditably filled various positions of trust and responsibility up to the time of his removal to this county. In 1868-69 was Mayor’s Clerk and Secretary of the Board of Health of San Francisco. In 1871 he settled on his present estate, consisting of three hundred and twenty-five acres, being a part of the Read ranch, where he prosecutes dairy farming. Married, November 11, 1865, Carmelita Garcia, a native of California, by whom he has two children, Sarah and Hugh.
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
DOCTOR JOHN CAIRNS
DOCTOR JOHN CAIRNS. Was born in Scotland, August 24, 1803. After finishing his education at the University of St. Andrews he acted as private tutor in several families. In 1830 was elected Master of the Grammar School of Lochmaben, which office he held for twelve years. Resigning this he left for China, passing two months in London, and being wrecked on the south coast of England. Arriving in China he located in Hong Kong, and edited the Hong Kong, and edited the Hong Kong Register, a newspaper published in the city of Victoria in that colony, for six years, and then came to California in company with A.L. Inglis and James Stephenson, bringing with them about thirty Chinese, with whom they went to Tuolumne county, and there founded that well-known place, Chinese Camp. After remaining here for three months he was engaged in the office of Everett & Co., of San Francisco. At the end of six months, during which he remained with them, losing everything, including a valuable library, in the fire of June 4, 1850, he commenced farming, being associated with his former partner. The subject of this sketch next purchased a farm near Fulton Station, Sonoma county, and sojourned there for then years; he afterwards lived in Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, for two years, and then moved to San Francisco, where he entered upon the study of medicine (more as a recreation than as a necessity), which he soon mastered, and obtained his diploma in 1867, at the green old age of sixty-four years. In 1873 the doctor took up his residence in Saucelito, where he has held the office of Justice of the Peace for four and a half years. He married, November 1, 1853, Jane Thomson, a native of Scotland.
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