Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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


F. G. LADD. � A native son of the Golden West is F. G. Ladd who was 
born at Stockton, April 6, 1862. His father, Ira W. Ladd, a native of Ver- 
mont, came via the Isthmus of Panama about 1852 to California where he fol- 
lowed ranching, teaming and saw-milling. He was married in Stockton to 
Miss Emily J. Sutherland, a native of New York state. Her father. Jacob 
Sutherland moved to Chicago and then, about 1851, brought his family across 
the plains in wagons drawn by ox teams. Ira W. Ladd teamed from Stockton 
into the Sierra Mountains and into Nevada. He was a good driver, having at 
times twenty-two mules in a team. He afterwards farmed on a ranch near 
Stockton, and here he died in 1916, his wife having preceded him in 1908. 
They had a family of four children. F. G was the only son and he received a 
good education. He chose farming for his life work, and went to work at 
ranching. In Stockton he married Miss Ella Learned, born in Alameda 
County, the daughter of D. A. Learned, born in Oxford, Mass.. who crossed 
the plains to California in the fall of 1850. After mining in Siskiyou County 
for a time he went to Idaho where he also mined and then returned to Cali- 
fornia, engaging in dairying in San Lorenzo, Alameda County. He was mar- 
ried in San Francisco to Gennis D. Hall, born in Chester Countv, Pa., who 
came via the Isthmus of Panama to California in 1860. D. A. Learned and 
his wife later moved to San Joaquin County and farmed east of Stockton 
and there they spent their last days. 

In 1886, F. G. Ladd came to Fresno County and became a pioneer home- 
steader and grain-grower of the Cantua district. Mr. and Mrs. Ladd had 
three children. Elmer is ranching in San Joaquin County; Georgia died at 
fifteen years of age; and Fred is ranching near the old home. Mr. Ladd is 
an enterprising man and has been an upbuilder of the county. Fraternally. 
he is a member of Coalinga Lodge No. 187, I. O. O. F., and is also a member 
of the Hanford Encampment of Odd Fellows. Mr. Ladd is a well read and 
much travelled man and is an interesting and instructive talker.