Unfortunately the date is not marked on it. He arrived in CA in 1849 as I recall it said in the diaries, and the obit says he had been a resident of CA for 43 years so a date can be approximated. Stephanie ***************************************************************** Death Of Dr. Gunn An Honored and Useful Pioneer and Citizen A Well-Rounded Life Goes Out Something About the Career of One of San Diego�s Residents and A State [can�t read] Dr. Lewis C. Gunn, father of the late Col. Douglas Gunn, Mrs. Charles S. Hamilton, Mrs. Geo. W. Marston, Mrs. Lee [can�t read] and Supervisor Chester Gunn died at the residence of Mr. Hamilton at Seventh and Ash Street late Saturday night. He was 79 years of age. He had been in infirm health for a long time. In the death of Dr. Lewis C. Gunn, California loses one of her earliest pioneers he having been a resident of the state for forty-three years. Dr. Gunn�s parents were educated and refined people who made their home for many years in Bloomingdale, then a suburb of New York City. Here his father, Dr. Alexander Gunn held the pastorate of the Dutch Reformed church. At the early age of 13 years, their son Lewis entered Columbia college from which he graduated with honor at 17. He had already decided to pursue a theological course and entered Princeton seminary with that intent. Ill health compelled him to relinquish the completion of his course and several years were devoted to recuperation. Two of his brothers had entered the medical profession and having a decided taste in that direction he,. too, pursued the study of medicine. During the early years of his life in California he practiced with great success but the profession was too trying for his health and he was again forced to seek other lines of work. His health remained delicate throughout his long life but his rigid adherence to a simple and regular mode of life enabled him to accomplish an unusual amount of work. He filled many positions of honor and trust � notably those of deputy surveyor of the Port of San Francisco, collector of the port at Port Angels, Washington, internal revenue assessor of the port, including the district of San Francisco, and he was for some years deputy collector of the port in San Diego. He attended to the duties of these and all positions with a conscientious exactitude and an integrity that impressed itself upon everyone who knew him. During several periods of his life, he engaged in the profession of teaching and had the pleasure of receiving, up to the day of his death, many expressions of the gratitude and reverence in which he was held by his old pupils. Perhaps no line of work which he pursued was as agreeable to him as that done for the press. He edited, for some years, the Sonora _Herald_ making it the vehicle of pure thought. noble principles, and stern morality. Later he edited the San Francisco _Times_ with conspicuous ability and in San Diego he did considerable work for the San Diego _Union_ which was for so many years so ably edited by his son, the late Douglas Gunn. His last years have been spent in the quiet enjoyment of his home and his books taking a great interest in the work of the Presbyterian church where he has been an elder for many years, and where he will be sadly missed. Dr. Gunn leaves a wife and four children to whom the public extends their warm sympathy. He has been a resident of San Diego since 1871. He will be held in affectionate remembrance by all who came in professional and social contact with him. The funeral will take place from the Presbyterian church tomorrow at 2 p.m.