Marin County Biographies

JAMES H. GARDNER

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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              Was born in South Carolina, March 16, 1810.  He 
wads educated at an Academy in Georgia, and graduated in law.  In 1849 he came 
via Panama to California, arriving at San Francisco in August of the 
above-mentioned year.  He went direct to the mines on the Yuba river; here he 
remained until 1854, when he returned to San Francisco, and became Register 
Clerk in the Custom House.  He was employed in the Custom House filling 
different positions until 1862, since which time he has been a Custom House 
broker.  He was a member of the Legislature during the years 1852-53 and 54.  In 
1869 he moved to Saucelito, where he has since resided.  Mr. Gardner married 
August 6, 1868, Miss Virginia Thouvenin, a native of France.
 
History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, Bowen & 
Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880