Marin County Biographies

JAMES McCAUSLAND

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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             Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in 
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1830.  In 1853, in company with his 
brother William, he started for California and landed in San Francisco March 5, 
1853.  On arrival he proceeded to the mines in Calaveras and Tuolumne counties 
and there remained until 1856, in the month of December of which year or January 
of �57, he came to his present ranch and put in a crop of potatoes.  That same 
year he purchased the farm and has since resided on it.  Married, November 6, 
1877, Lizzie Kidder, a native of Lancaster, Massachusetts.  We are safe in 
saying that no man throughout the length and breadth of Marin has done more to 
forward the interests of the county.  He is just in his dealings, true to his 
instincts, honest in his convictions and genial in his manners; taking him all 
in all no truer Friend exists than the ever popular Jim McCausland.
 
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