Marin County Biographies

JOHN GUAY

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Was born in Canada, May 21, 1839.  When twenty years old 
he emigrated to the United States and settled in New York, and was engaged in a 
brick yard; he afterwards moved to the State of Maine; from there he came to 
California in 1858, and went to the mines at Weaverville, Trinity county, on 
Trinity river, where he remained six years.  From this place he came to Tomales, 
Marin county, where he has since made his home, with the exception of a trip to 
Oregon and Lower California.  He bought out his brother in the livery business 
in Tomales, and at present writing is carrying on that establishment.  Married 
Ellen Callen on June 27, 1876.  She was born in Ireland.  Charles A. is their 
only child.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880