El Dorado County Biographies


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BENJAMIN W. HARTLESS
 
            Came to California from Carroll county, Missouri, where he had been 
residing for six years previous.  He came to Missouri from Tennessee with a 
widowed mother.  He was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, February 15th, 
1828.  After arriving in California he followed mining at Nevada city, Little 
Fork of the American river, and on Dry creek, near Georgetown, until 1858, then 
began dairying and farming at Garden valley.  His parents were natives of 
Virginia and moved to Tennessee in a very early day.  Mr. Hartless was married 
to Mrs. Wakefield April 23d, 1871.  She had a family of six children, viz.:  
Claudius B., William B., Jefferson D., Frank, Thomas and John.  Mrs. Hartless 
was born in Saratoga county, New York, and came to California in 1853; she first 
located at Brighton, Sacramento county, from here to Negro Bar and thence to 
Garden valley, where they reside on 160 acres of land.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p � 225-226
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler