California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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THOMAS G. BARD. Thomas G. Bard of Somis, Ventura County, is the example of a rich man's 
son who has made good in a close and practical connection with these industries and business 
affairs which are fundamental in the prosperity of this section of California.
A son of the late Senator Thomas R. Bard, whose career has been sketched on other pages of 
this publication, he was born at the beautiful estate of his father, Berylwood, in Hueneme, 
Ventura County. May 7, 1886. Up to the age of sixteen he was educated in Clark's Private 
School at Pasadena, and then entered the Washington School at Washington, D. C., where he 
finished his studies in 1905.
Returning to California, he was employed at Hamilton by the Sacramento Valley Sugar 
Company. He did not disdain to accept and perform faithfully any duty assigned him, and he 
learned the business from the bottom up, finally being made foreman. After three years he 
returned to Hueneme, spent one year in his father's office, and then rented 400 acres of his 
father's Las Posas ranch. In addition to his independent adventure as a farmer, he was soon 
made superintendent of the entire Las Posas ranch, containing 7,000 acres. He managed this 
efficiently until July, 1916, when he resigned the position of superintendent in order to devote 
all his time to his 400-acre bean ranch.
Mr. Bard takes much interest in California military affairs and is a member of the Military 
Training Camp Association of the state, and during the summer of 1916 spent four weeks in the 
training camp. He is a republican in politics. In Bakersfield, California, February 5, 1913, he 
married Miss Anne Dellaveau. They are the parents of one child, Thomas R. Bard, now 272 
years old.