Central California Biographies

A memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of Central California : illustrated : containing 
a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the 
present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of 
some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of 
to-day (1893)

Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company
Author: Barrows, Henry D; Ingersoll, Luther A

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 


AMOS M. HARDIN.� There are few farmers of Hollister, who are better known for 
their energy, enterprise and thrift than Mr. Hardin. He is a native of Knox county, 
Tennessee, having been born in Hardin Valley, a lovely stretch of valley land in the 
southern portion of Knox county. His father, John G. Hardin, was a farmer and 
stock-raiser, who was born in the same valley. and who was a son of Amos Hardin, 
a pioneer of Knox county, who located land comprising the valley named for him. Here 
he reared his family of seven sons and two daughters, our subject's father being the 
third born. He, like his other brothers, grew up to farm life and located on and about 
the old farm. John G. Hardin married Sarah Gallaher, who was born in Knox county. 
He was an enterprising man, who owned and cultivated 1,800 acres of land and transacted 
business on an extensive scale. 

Our subject was the fourth in a family of seven children, having been born January 11, 
1849. He fought during the late war in the Confederate army, as Captain of Company B, 
Third Tennessee Infantry, and served four years. He was captured by the Union forces, 
at Hatcher's, in front of Petersburg, just prior to Lee's surrender. 

After peace was declared he returned home and resumed his business. In 1866 he married 
Mary S. Owen, a daughter of Rev. Richard Owen, a Baptist clergyman of Clinton, Ten- 
nessee. Mrs. Hardin was born in Tennessee, and has borne her husband nine children, 
namely: James L., Katie S., Mattie G., Richard O., Pearl L., Minnie, Robert M., Wennel and 
Harry Houston. 

In 1870 Mr. Hardin came to California and located at Hollister, his present home, where 
he owns a fertile farm of eighty-six acres as a homestead, and also owns 640 acres of land 
in Fresno county. He is a Knight Templar and an active member of the A. O. U. W.