MRS. JANE MAHIN 

Mrs. Jane Mahin, of Dry Creek Township, is a daughter of Henry Murray, and was born in Cedar County, Iowa. Her father, a farmer, was a native of Ireland, and his genealogy can be traced back to the Scotch-Irish. He was raised on a farm in his native country. He was born May 3, 1812, and married Miss Jane Adair in Ireland. Emigrating to America, he located near Point Pleasant, Ohio; subsequently he moved to Iowa, where Mrs. Mahin was born, and still lives there, at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife died in 1872, at the age of sixty-four years. In their family were eleven children, six daughters and five sons; three daughters are in this State. Besides Mrs. Mahin, there are Mrs. William Frazer and Mrs. D.L. Davis, both in this county. Mrs. Mahin came across the plains and mountains to California in 1864, and purchased the property which she now occupies, twenty-two miles from Sacramento and one mile east of the upper Stockton road. It now contains 423 acres, and is in a very fine state of cultivation, the soil being well adapted to general farming; and the improvements are good. There are also a number of magnificent oak shade trees on the place. Mrs. Mahin has two sons and two daughters, namely: Jennie, wife of E.M. Curl of Los Angeles; John R., who lives in this county; Nelita, wife of William Stuart of Los Angeles; and William, a resident of Sacramento. Mrs. Mahin visited her old home in 1870, but says she is willing to make her home in California during the remainder of her life.