Describe John Allyn here ... a dabbler in many trades ... had quite a colorful background
- historic person
- arrived in California in 1851
- real estate
- gold mining
- dentistry
- attorney
- Presbyterian minister
- built the Studio Building in Old Oakland in 1865-66 after he obtained the land for $1,300 from Edmond Sanford
- trained at Oberlin College and Lane Theological Seminary
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