Mendocino County Biographies

James L. Dunlap

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, March 11, 1843. When about 
five years of age he, with parents, moved to Illinois, where they resided until 
1850, when they started across the plains to California. The father was drowned 
while crossing the Humbolt river, the remainder of the family, consisting of 
James L., his mother and two half-brothers, arrived at Sacramento in August. 
Here they resided for three years; then settled on Cache creek in Yolo county, 
where they resided four years; then moved to Petaluma, Sonoma county. Here the 
subject of this sketch followed carpentering until 1868, when he came to 
Mendocino county, and settled in Covelo, where he has since resided, being 
engaged in carpentering. He is Constable of Round Valley township. Married March 
10, 1867, Miss Maggie Brightenstien. They have six children: Ida May, Ena Belle, 
James Leroy, Mabel Isadore, Francis Linden, and Carrie Nettie.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 599