Marin County Biographies

EDWIN LADNER

Transcribed by Betty Wilson, September, 2004.

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

 
              Was born in the county of Cornwall, England, January 
16, 1842, and there received his education.  August 17, 1863, he joined the 
police force in the above county, resigned September 4, 1866, and four days 
later started for California, arriving in San Francisco October 24, 1866.  His 
first work in the State was mining in the Mount Diablo coal mines.  In January, 
1867, he moved to Marin, and engaged in dairying and farming in Tomales 
township; in 1869, he leased the Crocker ranch, now owned by H. Elphick; thence 
he proceeded to the Marshall tract in 1870, where he remained four years; then 
moved on the Patrick Fox, commonly known as the Big Rock ranch, near San Rafael, 
where he resided five years.  In the Fall of 1879, he returned to Tomales 
township and settled on his present farm of four hundred acres, located about 
half-way between Tomales and Marshall, on the hill road.  Mr. Ladner married, 
February 9, 1872, Nancy Clark Himmah, a native of Cheatham county, Tennessee, by 
whom he has Albert Edwin, born June 28, 1873, and Amelia Ann, born July 2, 1877.
 
�History of Marin County, California�, Alley, Brown & Co., Publishers, San 
Francisco, 1880