Mendocino County Biographies

Robert Caughey

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Son of William and Margaret Orr Caughey, was born in County 
Dundass, Canada West, Ontario District, October 29, 1835. He remained at his 
birthplace until 1863, receiving his education at the common schools. At the age 
of seventeen he began the millwright and carpenter trades, which he followed as 
long as he remained in Canada. In 1863 he came to California, sailing from New 
York City February 1st, on the steamer Ariel. From the Isthmus he sailed in the 
steamer Golden Age, and arrived in San Francisco March 1st. He went at once to 
Bloomfield, Sonoma county, and followed the carpenter�s trade in Sonoma and 
Marin counties till 1868, when he came to Mendocino county and settled on his 
present place of two hundred acres, and has since been engaged in farming, 
dairying and stock-raising. Has been extensively engaged in road contracting 
also. He has always taken an active interest in school interests of his section, 
and is present a member of the Board of Supervisors. He married Miss Margaret 
Munroe, August 21, 1858, in Canada, who was a native of that Province, being 
born September 2, 1838. Their children are: William, Donald, Fraser, Grace Ann, 
Ella May, Robert Henry and Gertrude.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 517, 518