Mendocino County Biographies

C. J. Buchanan

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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C. J. Buchanan. Was born in Inverness county, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, April 
15, 1849, where he resided till May, 1863. Moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, 
and resided till 1866; moved to Penobscot county, Maine, where he engaged in 
lumbering, which business he followed, together with building railroad bridges, 
dams, wharfs, and driving logs in the rivers till 1875. He then came, via 
Panama, to California and settled in Point Arena. Engaged in work in the woods 
till March 1876, when he went to San Francisco and engaged as conductor on the 
Market Street Railroad, which he followed till September of the same year, then 
returned to Point Arena and opened a saloon, which he kept till February 1877, 
when he moved to Cuffey�s Cove and engaged in the same business till July of the 
same year. Became engaged to be married in 1876, but the lady declined to marry 
him whilst in the saloon business. He quit it and bought in a livery stable. He 
was married, August 1, 1877, to Mary A. McMaster, who was born in Cherryfield, 
Maine, July 1, 1856. Her parents moved to Orono, Maine, in 1860, where they 
resided till August, 1875, when they came overland to California and settled in 
Point Arena. He is a Deputy Constable and still in the livery business. Their 
children are: May, born May 1, 1878; Charley D., born December 31, 1879.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 p. 531