Marin County Biographies

BENJAMIN HARRINGTON, JR.

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Born in Durham, Cumberland county, Maine, 
May 5, 1830.  He received his education in the common schools in his native 
State.  Moved to Cook county, Illinois, where he remained during the year 1852, 
thence via Nicaragua to California, in company with John H. Osgood, arriving 
April 11, 1853.  He at once went to the mines at Placerville, thence to Amador 
county, where he remained about six years.  He came to this county in the Fall 
of 1862; and bought his present farm in company with Mr. Osgood, said place 
being located about two miles from Valley Ford, Sonoma county.  He has since 
bought out his partner.  Is unmarried.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880