Sacramento County Biographies

L. HARTHAN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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GRANITE TOWNSHIP. 
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	mining, Folsom; own undivided half of one hundred and sixty acres 
of mineral land known as Rhoades diggings; born in New Hampshire in 1828; sailed 
in bark Regulus from Boston, in 1849, for California via Cape Horn; was seven 
months making the voyage; settled at Mormon Island, this county, and engaged in 
mining for about two years; was in the employ of Adams Express Company for some 
three years. In 1861 enlisted in the First Battalion California Volunteers; 
served three years and was honorably discharged at Las Cruces, New Mexico; the 
battalion was commanded by Colonel Carleton, who afterwards became a Major 
General; after his discharge he returned East, and came back to California in 
the spring of 1865, and settled in Folsom, where he has since been engaged in 
mining, speculating and restaurant business. Mr. Harthan has been Constable, and 
also held the office of Deputy Sheriff under A. D. Patterson. He is a member of 
the Sacramento Society of Pioneers. 

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