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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

AMOS M. HARDIN.—There are few farmers of Hollister, who are better known for
their energy, enterprise and thrift than Mr. Hardin. He is a native of Knox
county, Tennessee, having been born in Hardin Valley, a lovely stretch of valley
land in the southern portion of Knox county. His father, John G. Hardin, was a
farmer and stock-raiser, who was born in the same valley, and who was a son of
Amos Hardin, a pioneer of Knox county, who located land comprising the valley
named for him. Here he reared his family of seven sons and two daughters, our
subject's father being the third born. He, like his other brothers, grew up to
farm life and located on and about the old farm. John G. Hardin married Sarah
Gallaher, who was born in Knox county. He was an enterprising man, who owned and
cultivated 1,800 acres of land and transacted business on an extensive scale.

  Our subject was the fourth in a family of seven children, having been born
January 11, 1849. He fought during the late war in the Confederate army, as
Captain of Company B, Third Tennessee Infantry, and served four years. He was
captured by the Union forces, at Hatcher's, in front of Petersburg, just prior
to Lee's surrender.

  After peace was declared he returned home and resumed his business. In 1866 he
married Mary S. Owen, a daughter of Rev. Richard Owen, a Baptist clergyman of
Clinton, Tennessee. Mrs. Hardin was born in Tennessee, and has borne her husband
nine children, namely: James L., Katie S., Mattie G., Richard O., Pearl L.,
Minnie, Robert M., Wennel and Harry Houston.

  In 1870 Mr. Hardin came to California and located at Hollister, his present
home, where he owns a fertile farm of eighty-six acres as a homestead, and also
owns 640 acres of land in Fresno county. He is a Knight Templar and an active
member of the A. O. U. W.


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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