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Hiram Austin. Was born in Portage county, Ohio, November 27, 1820, and there resided, attended school and worked
on his father's farm for the first few years of his life; teaching school for a time when but seventeen. His taste
running in the direction of mechanical studies, at the age of twenty he commenced surveying. In 1852 he left Portage
for Park county, Indiana, and here began the dairying and cheese making business, combining therewith some engineering
and surveying. He resided there for four years, when he moved to Columbia county, Wisconsin, where he opened a
prairie farm and resided until 1859, when he moved to Macoupin county, Illinois, and there embarked in farming
and surveying. In December, 1861, he came to California via Panama, and at once took up a residence in Margin county.
He engaged in farming in Bolinas for three years, when, in 1864, he was elected to be County Surveyor on the Republican
ticket. In 1865 he moved his residence to San Rafael. Mr. Austin has been County Surveyor until the election of
1879, and during his terms of office has done much valuable service, among others the completion of a very correct
and handsome county map.
From:
History of Marin County, California
Alley, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1880
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