Marin County Biographies

GEORGE DILLON

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              The subject of this sketch was born in Ireland March 
12, 1826.  He emigrated to the United States in 1846, settling in Tennessee, but 
afterwards moved to Missouri.  In 1856 Mr. Dillon crossed the plains to 
California and settled near his present farm, but did not take up his residence 
on the land he now owns until 1859.  For nearly a quarter of a century has Mr. 
Dillon been a resident of Marin county and Tomales township.  That these years 
have been fraught with change, which have crept on year after year so slowly but 
surely that they were hardly perceptible, there is no doubt.  Not only has the 
appearance of the country changed, but Mr. Dillon, too, bears the marks of time. 
 But with what feelings of pride can we look back over all these years and now 
be able to say, that the subject of this sketch has so lived that now he is 
honored and respected by the people of this county, and beloved by his children 
and many friends.  He resides on a beautiful ranch of nine hundred and six 
acres, which fringes the shores of the Pacific ocean.  He married Matilda 
Blevings in 1854.  She was born in Missouri, on the 24th of December, 1827.  
Their children are:  William Riley, who was born at Fort Riley on the plains May 
21, 1856; Fannie, Jerome, Ellen, George, Catherine, Joseph, Ann, John, and one 
deceased.
 
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