Records of Charles Shinn on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Charles Shinn and the Shinn Family History

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Some Famous People called Charles Shinn

Charles Howard Shinn

Charles Howard Shinn was a horticulturalist, author, inspector of California Experiment Stations, and forest ranger in California.

He was born in Austin, Texas in 1852 to James and Lucy Shinn. The family moved to Alameda County near Vallejo's Mills, California in 1856. Vallejo's Mills became the town of Niles in 1869 (now a District in Fremont). Much of Charles Shinn's childhood was spent at the ranch and nursery of his family in Niles. His sister, Milicent Shinn, was an American child psychologist. His first cousin Edmund Clark Sanford was a prominent psychologist.

Source: Charles Howard Shinn, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Shinn

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