Marin-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Ladner, Edwin 1842 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Edwin Ladner. 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.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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