Marin County Biographies

RICHARD R. MAGEE

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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              Whose portrait will be found in this work, was 
born in County Donegal, Ireland, in the year 1819.  In 1847, with his mother and 
sister, he left the green shores of the Emerald Isle for New Brunswick, but 
remaining only one month pushed his way to Boston, Mass., and there sojourned 
for a year and a half.  In March, 1849, Mr. Magee arrived in San Francisco in 
the ship �Cordova,� having made the passage round Cape Horn.  His first venture 
was at the mines where he remained for seven months, when he came to Marin 
county.  In 1857 he settled on his present place, located about one mile from 
Nicasio, where he has a farm of four hundred acres.  Married, January 9, 1862, 
Mary E. Murray, who died March 27, 1875, leaving four children:�Mary T., Alice 
C., Richard J., and Thomas E.
 
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