Father: Henry HARDIN
Mother: Mary PHILLIPS
Family 1 : Nancy Carlotta MEYERS
_Henry HARDING _____+
_Henry HARDING ___|
| |_Rebecca NETHERTON _
_Henry HARDIN __|
| | _Benjamin SMITH ____
| |_Mary SMITH ______|
| |_Judith HURST ______
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|--James Allen HARDIN
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| _Samuel PHILLIPS _|
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|_Mary PHILLIPS _|
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|_Sarah ARNETT ____|
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Notes:
| Known as "Colonel
James Allen Hardin." Appears to have been a part of the Hagans-Cockrill 1853 immigration. From Henry Hardin of California, by Fredna Tweedt Irvine (Belmont, MA: 1976), page 81: |
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| In 1839 he moved to
Johnson County, Missouri... Col. Hardin had first crossed the Plains along the
Oregon Trail in 1853 and in 1855 he returned to Missouri to marry Nancy
Carlotta Meyers... After the birth of their first child, C. H. E. Hardin, took
his family across the Plains to California, guiding a six wagon train... The
following resume of his life is taken from three sources: Obituary, family
communication -- a memo from Ethel Hardin Pooler [his daughter], and from An
Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California. Colonel Hardin crossed the Plains with his parents when he was twenty-three years of age in 1853 and the same year he started in the cattle business. For many years he was extensively engaged in raising livestock. In 1859 he opened a store in Petaluma with a combined stock of groceries and staple dry goods. Two years later he took in Mr. Amos W. Riley as a partner, and they enlarged the stock so as to embrace general merchandise. Soon after the firm began, they established stores in other towns, and for some years they owned a number of mercantile houses in Sonoma and adjacent counties. In 1880 they sold out that branch of business and Mr. Riley became a partner with Col. Hardin in a portion of his already extensive ranch property. They owned great ranches in California, Nevada and Oregon, and numbered "their heards and flocks by the tens of thousands, and ranked amoung the 'cattle kings' of the Pacific Slope." Besides their joint property, Col. Hardin owned a large ranch of 12,700 acres in Mendocino County, California. Colonel Hardin had crossed the plains six times with droves of cattle; had made six round trips across the continent by rail, and was in railroad wrecks and shipwrecks. In the winter of 1854-55 he sailed from San Francisco on board the steamer, Southerner, bound for Portland, Oregon. A heavy storm struck them off the coast of Oregon and it became evident the vessel would go down, and the passengers and crew, consisting of forty-five men, five women and three children took to life-boats with a few articles of provision on the 26th of December. They landed near Cape Flattery at the mouth of the Quineote River, and "there on that bleak shore, in the midst of hostile Indians, with no shelter, and subsisting on quarter rations, they remained twenty-seven days... until they were taken aboard a passing vessel..." Much of his time was spent in Nevada where he had land north of Winnemuca. He was considered a citizen of the state of Nevada, and was chosen one of the Presidential Electors for 1888 on the Democratic ticket... Col. Hardin and family moved to Santa Rosa in 1872 and built their elegant residence on Fifth and Beaver Streets. It was the largest house in Northern California at that time with fifteen rooms set in an acre of land, a big barn to house the horses and carriages, and a separate building for washing and fruit canning. There were eight fireplaces in the house and it was lighted by gas chandeliers lighted by tapers in long holders. Mrs. Pooler remembers the cream colored velvet carpet with roses in it, and remembers long hours in the music room where Mr. Lerch tried unsuccessfully to make her a musician. The Hardin children had wonderful summers on the sheep ranch at Soda Springs in Mendocino County. There was a huge house with a fireplace they could walk into. Innumerable guests could be cared for, and there were guests all summer long. They visited the big cattle ranches in Nevada and Oregon as well. Col. Hardin was a member of the board of trustees of the Pacific Methodist College in Santa Rosa, and he materially aided its fortunes. |
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A biography is available about him in An Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California (copy from Kit Fuller). A will for James A. Hardin was also filed in Sonoma County (copy from Kit Fuller). Listed in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, 1853-1997 (Heritage Books Inc., Santa Rosa, CA: June 1997), p. 73, as being buried in Plot WHC 227 & 232. Listed as being born 2 Sep 1830 and died 28 Feb 1905, 74 years. Wife: Nannie Meyers Hardin. Inf. from Nannie Hardin. Listed in the California State Library Pioneer Record (from Kit Fuller): |
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| Name in full: James Allen Hardin | ||
| Place of birth: Louisville Kentucky | ||
| Date of birth: September Second 1830 | ||
| Father: Henry Hardin | ||
| Mother (maiden name in full): Mary (Phillips) Hardin | ||
| If married, to whom: Nannie Carlotta Myers | ||
| Date of marriage: October 25th 1855 Place of marriage: Pleasant Hill, Missouri | ||
| Date of Pioneer's arrival in California: First in 1853. Returned to Ms. in 55, married and returned with wife and child in 1857 | ||
| Overland or by vessel: Both times he came overland. | ||
| States lived in before coming to California: Kentucky and Missouri | ||
| Places of residence in California: Petaluma and Santa Rosa in Sonoma Co. | ||
| Profession or occupation: General Merchandise and stock raising on a large scale in Nevada, Oregon, and California. | ||
| Public offices held: None. He was interested in Educational and Church work and gave largely to it. | ||
| Politics: Democrat | ||
| Where educated: Common schools of Kentucky & Missouri | ||
| Place and date of death: San Francisco, Feb. 28th 1905. | ||
| Descendants: Charles Henry Edwin. Born Oct. 21st 1856. Died March 4th 1929. Eudora Hardin Upton. Born Jan 14th 1860. Died June 19th 1916. Jimella Hardin Eardley. Born Sep 15th 1865. Amos Riley. Born July 22nd 1871. Died Oct 2nd 1934. Ethel Hardin Pooler. Born Oct. 16th 1873. | ||
| Information given by: Jimella Hardin Eardley[?] Relationship: Daughter | ||
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This page created on 02/05/01 16:08. Updated 09/21/02 18:22.
