Charles Fayette McGlashan (12 August 1847 – 6 January 1931) was an American writer, historian, journalist, educator, lawyer, amateur entomologist and astronomer. He was also a Republican who took an active role in Sinophobic movements in Truckee, California in the 1880s. McGlashan Point overlooking

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is named after him.

Early life

McGlashan was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin and his family moved to Placerville in 1854. He was educated at Sotoyme Institute, Healdsburg, California until 1865 and at the Williston Seminary in Massachusetts from 1868 to 1870. McGlashan first married Jennie Munson in 1871 and after a divorce, married Leonora Keiser in 1879.

Career

McGlashan settled in Truckee around 1872, where he became a principal of schools from 1874. He later became a correspondent for the ''Sacramento Record'' in Utah, writing about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 and the arrest of

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. He trained in law and became editor and owner of the ''Truckee Republican''.

Truckee Method

Elected into the

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in 1885 for his leadership in anti-Chinese actions, one of McGlashan’s actions was in the boycott of Chinese workers into the town. He formed the Truckee Anti-Chinese Boycotting Committee which adopted the resolution: "We recognize the Chinese as an unmitigated curse to the Pacific Coast and a direct threat to the bread and butter of the working class”. They refused to sell any material to Chinese immigrants for two months. The so-called Truckee Method which included vigilante action by the "Caucasian League", blowing up water tanks in Chinatowns and boycott led to the Chinese leaving Truckee around 1886. McGlashan wrote an article in his newspaper titled "The Cue Klux Klan" in which he