Monterey-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Hartnell, U. 1843 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

U. HARTNELL.-In writing the biography of this gentleman, one touches the link
which connects with honorable prominence the first of the Anglo-Saxon residents
in Monterey county with the American occupation of the State, since his father,
William E. P. Hartnell, a native of England, settled in this county as early as
1822. He was an accomplished man of letters, as well as a far-seeing,
enterprising business man. In order to afford more complete detail of his life
we have given his history in a part on another page of this work.

  His son, U. Hartnell, was born February 20, 1843, on the Alisal ranch, six
miles east of Salinas, Monterey county. Young Hartnell's mother, Maria Teresa de
la Guerra, came of a family of wealth and prominence in Spain, and which, in the
early occupation and settlement of California, figures honorably. Her father,
Jose Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega, was com andante of Santa Barbara as early
as 1822, and left a name as locally historic in the southern portion of
California as it was of eminent worth and distinction in the annals of Spain.

  The subject of this sketch was reared on the ranch, enjoying all the freedom
and delight which the patriarchal condition of the period afforded to the sons
of large rancheros, and extending and partaking of the hospitality which caused
California at this time to be regarded as a veritable Arcadia. His early
education was received under the guidance of his sister. In 1854 he removed to
the rancho of Todos Santos, Santa Barbara. His father dying here, he returned to
the homestead in 1859, still continuing his studies, aided in his acqusition of
the English language by a private tutor. Between 1863 and 1868 he found
occupation as a clerk in Santa Clara. Returning to the ranch in Monterey county,
he settled down as farmer and stock-raiser, continuing thus engaged until 1879,
when he was chosen County Treasurer, which office he has filled ever since. At
the election of 1890 his success as a candidate was so universally conceded that
no opponent could be found to enter the lists against him. His bond during his
first years of office, when the duties of treasurer were combined with those of
tax collector, was a heavy one, being $220,000, and in itself exhibits his
personal standing for probity in the community.

  Mr. Hartnell is singularly happy in his domestic life. He was married in 1877
to Miss Ellen F. Blaine, of Dayton, Ohio, and his family circle is brightened
with the presence of two daughters. In his private life, as well as in his
official dealings with the public, it may be said of Mr. Hartnell, that in the
courtesy and amiability which characterize him, together with his direct
business habits, he combines the best leading traits of the two nations from
which he descended.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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