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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 62370, member: 59&quot;]Interesting family background. It appears that his father, also named James Richmond Hardenbergh (born abt 1814-15 in New Jersey and listed as an attorney at law in the 1850 census with wife Eliza, son James R and other family members in New Brunswick, NJ) moved across the country to Sacramento WITHOUT HIS FAMILY and became established there so quickly that he was elected Mayor in both 1851 and 1853. In 1860 he was Postmaster and during the Civil War he became Surveyor General of the District of California for the federal Interior Department. Meanwhile back in NJ, his wife was listed with her mother and the children in the 1860 Census with a special notation that she is &quot;insane.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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