Marin County Biographies

JOHN T. JAMES

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

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             whose portrait appears in this work, was born in 
Niagara county, New York, March 14, 1834.  Here he received his education.  He 
also lived there till he started for California, in 1853, stopping a short time 
at Peoria, Illinois.  He cross the plained in company with Thomas Carruthers and 
L.W. Walker.  He stopped about two or three months on the Sacramento river, when 
he came to Tomales township and settled on the ranch now owned by A. Woodworth.  
He was joined by Thomas Carruthers in 1854, and they were well known by all old 
settlers by their firm name �Tom and Jack.�  Mr. James now lives directly south 
of Tomales, on the bluffs overlooking the town.  Married Frances Saph, March 29, 
1865.  She was born in England April 4, 1837.  Alice, Jessie, Harriett, Mary, 
Carrie, Ida and Edith are their children.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880