Sacramento County Biographies

HARTFORD ANDERSON

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GRANITE TOWNSHIP. 
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	was born in Pennsylvania, in 1818, where he remained till 
1840, engaged in farming. For five years worked at his trade, millwright, and 
then removed to Wisconsin, where he remained till 1849, engaged in wagon-making 
and bridge-building. In 1850 came to California, and has followed mining, for 
thirty years. In 1844 married Lurana Adkins, a native of Kentucky, who died in 
1852; was married again in 1857; the second wife died in 1874. Mr. Anderson has 
held the office of Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years. His property is 
worth about $1000. Post Office, Folsom. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.