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History of Cass County, Iowa
Springfield, ILL.:
Continental Historical Company, 1884

  645-646

        John McGRAIN settled on the northeast quarter of section 1, where
     he owns eighty acres, in March, 1876. This land was entered by CHARLES
     C. MARSH, and the first improvements upon it were made by JAMES R.
     SILVERS.  Mr. McGRAIN was born in Lafayette county, Indiana, in 1829.
     He was brought up in Illinois, and lived with his parents until twenty
     years of age. In 1849 he went overland to California. The company with
     which he went was one of the first to cross the plains to California
     after the discovery of gold in that State.  He drove an ox team, con-
     suming about five months in making the trip. He remained there about
     eighteen months, engaged in mining. At that time the news of the
     discovery of gold in Australia reached California, and Mr. McGRAIN,
     with a number of other miners, determined to go to the new land of
     gold. Accordingly, they took passage for Australia in the second ship
     that left San Francisco bound for that place. He spent nearly thirty
     years in Australia, returning in 1876, the year in which he located
     here. He spent the time in Australia, first in mining and later in
     stock-raising.  He was married in that country to EANA ROLLINS, a
     native of Australia, but of English parentage. They have one child,
     WILLIAM, born here in 1879.

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