Marin County Biographies

JOHN BUCHANAN

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Born in county Antrim, Ireland, January, 1827.  Came 
to America in 1844, arriving at Philadelphia in time to witness the great riot 
in that city on July 6th of that year.  Mr. B. first made a permanent settlement 
in Dearborn county, Indiana, where he remained from 1844 till 1851; then came to 
this State via Cape Horn, arriving in San Francisco in July, 1852.  He went to 
the middle fork of the American river in El Dorado county, where he engaged in 
mining till April, 1853, at which time he came to Tomales, settling on what is 
now known as the Dr. G.W. Dutton ranch.  In 1857 he came to his present ranch of 
three hundred and fifty acres.  Married Jane Gilchrist in 1860.  She was born in 
Scotland.  John, William, James, and Maggie A. 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