Contra Costa-El Dorado-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Bryant, Gardner M. 1831 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

GARDNER M. BRYANT.—Was born in Spartenburgh, South Carolina, September 15, 1831,
and is the son of Alfred and Mary (Stone) Bryant. When six years of age he was
taken to Western Tennessee by his parents, where he received his education and
resided until 1850. In that year he emigrated to California, arriving at
Hangtown (now Placerville) August 13th. Mr. Bryant at once proceeded to the
mines at Rattlesnake Bar, on the south fork of the American river, and
prosecuted mining until the Fall of 1852; he then began freighting between
Sacramento, Marysville, Onion valley, etc., which he followed until 1853. Mr.
Bryant then settled near Gilroy, Santa Clara county, where he engaged in
dairying for a year, after which he moved to Contra Costa county, and first
located at the head of San Pablo creek, about four miles from Lafayette. At the
end of a year he went to reside in the Pleasant Hill school district. In 1864 he
proceeded to Idaho Territory with a band of horses, and in September returned
and took up his residence for a year at Walnut Creek. In the Fall of 1865 he
removed to Tulare county, where he embarked in sheep-farming. In 1867 he came
back to Contra Costa, and settled in Pacheco, whence he moved in 1873 to San
Jose, but returned in the Fall of 1875. In 1879 he moved to Tulare county; in
1880 he went to Helena, Montana, and engaged in sheep-farming. He married, March
22, 1854, Lucy J. McClellan, a native of Jackson county, Missouri, and has:
Charles A. William F., and Mary A.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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