Marin County Biographies ALEXANDER BEAN Transcribed by Betty Wilson This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Born in York, Maine, November 10, 1825. Here he was educated. In 1854 he came to this State via the Isthmus of Panama, and settled on a farm now owned by Robert Bailey on San Antonio creek. He came to his present farm in 1863. Married Emma J. Turner March 3, 1858. She was born in Dresden, Maine, March 6, 1838. Edwin, born June 27, 1859, and Lilla, born April 4, 1861, are their children. 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