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He went to Sydney, Australia with his parents Willam and Jessie Macpherson in 1829 where he attended Cape's School and later acquired the rural properties of Keera near Bingara, New South Wales and Mount Abundance near Roma in Queensland.
Mein was born at Maitland, New South Wales, and attended William Timothy Cape's school, at Darlinghurst until 1857, when he attended the newly opened Sydney Grammar School.
He was educated at W. T. Cape's Sydney College, and left school at age 16 to become apprenticed to T. Bowden, ironmonger.