History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ed mother was married while here, and moved to Nashville,taking the subject of this sketch with her. While here he attended theEdgefield Male Academy for four years, and entered the University ofNashville in 1871, graduating in 1875, after which he attended the Van-derbilt University a short time. He then commenced the study of law withW. G. & M. M. Brien, Jr., attorneys, at Nashville. He was admitted topractice in 1877, and in June of that year he came to California. Af
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . ed mother was married while here, and moved to Nashville,taking the subject of this sketch with her. While here he attended theEdgefield Male Academy for four years, and entered the University ofNashville in 1871, graduating in 1875, after which he attended the Van-derbilt University a short time. He then commenced the study of law withW. G. & M. M. Brien, Jr., attorneys, at Nashville. He was admitted topractice in 1877, and in June of that year he came to California. Afterpi-acticing a short time in Santa Rosa, Sonoma county, he came to Mendo-cino county, and not finding a good opening at Ukiah, he located at Mendo-cino City, where he resided till 1879, when he was elected on the Demo-cratic ticket to the office of District Attorney. He then took up his abodeat Ukiah, where he still resides, faithfully discharging the duties of his Yell is one of the youngest, if not the youngest. District Attorney inthe State, and he fills the position with more than ordinary 675 ADDENDA. Hon. J. B. Lamar, Whose portrait appears in tiiis work, Ls a native ofBibb county, Georgia, and is now in his 53d year. His parental ancestorswere French Huguenots, and his mother was a daughter of Colonel MinerWinn, who was a patriot soldier of the Revolutionary War. Winsboro, SouthCarolina, takes its name from and was founded by his family. JudgeLamars boyhood was mostly passsd in Chatanooga county, near the LookoutMountain. He completed his scholastic course at the Gurnnette Institute;commenced the study of law at eighteen years of age, and was admitttedto practice in all the courts of Georgia at the age of twenty. He leftGeorgia in the winter of 1848, and embarked at New Orleans for Vera Cruz,traveling through Mexico to Mazatlan, where he took passage on the , arriving in San Francisco April 24, 1849. After a brief sojournin San Francis
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