He was a Placer County Assemblyman.
March 3, 1888
New town site established by a committee made up of W.B. Lardner, Charles Tuttle, and N. Fulweiler.
Placer Herald
April 30, 1889
Gov. Waterman appointed Hollis Newton, John C. Boggs, W.G. Lardner, M. W. Baker, H.T. Power, G.W. Towle, Jo Hamilton, and W.D. Perkins as directors of Placer Agricultural District No. 20.
Placer Herald
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Prominent among the distinguished member of the bar of Placer County is numbered William Branson Lardner. He is actively connected with the profession which has an important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as conserving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individual rights. In political circles Mr. Lardner has also gained distinction and in 1899 and 1900 represented the thirteenth district of California in the general assembly, and is now state senator from the fifth congressional district.
A native of Michigan, he was born in Niles, on the 12th of December, 1850, and is a representative of an old English family. His great-grandfather, Lynford Lardner, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1740. He was a brother-in-law of Richard Penn and went to Philadelphia in the interest of the Penn heirs, having charge of the estate there. He settled at Lansdowne and had one hundred acres of land at Holmesburg, on the Delaware River. His son, William Lardner, the grandfather of our subject, married Miss Ann Shepherd, of North Carolina, and their son, Lynford Lardner, was born in Philadelphia. Having arrived at years of majority he married Sarah K. Moore, also a native of the Keystone state. In 1832 he removed to Cincinnati, prior to which time he was in the United States Bank in Philadelphia, with Nicholas Biddle, a cousin and one of the most distinguished financiers the country has produced. Later in life Mr. Lardner engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian, while his wife was identified with the Methodist church. They became the parents of nine children. The father died in 1882 at the age of seventy-six years, and is buried at Auburn, California. His wife passed away October 13, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Only four of the family yet survives.
William Branson Lardner, whose name introduces this review, was educated in Cornell College, Iowa, being graduated in that institution with the class of 1875. Determining to enter the profession of law he prepared for the bar by pursuing a course in the law department of the State University of Iowa, in which he was graduated n 1877. Previously he had engaged in teaching school for five years in Iowa and in California, and when he had mastered the principles of jurisprudence sufficient for admission to the bar he came direct to Auburn and opened a law office, in which he has since continued. He has a close and discriminating nature, with keen powers of analysis, is logical in argument, forceful in delivery and convincing in his appeals before court and jury. He is now well known as a well-read lawyer and an able advocate, having been connected with much important litigation whereby his ability has been demonstrated. In 1879 he was elected district attorney and served in that office most capably for two years and ten months, during which time he prosecuted the train-wreckers who had wrecked the train at Cape Horn Mills. This was a very celebrated case, and two of the men were convicted. The able manner in which he handled the suit won for Mr. Lardner considerable celebrity as an able criminal lawyer.
In 1898, while he was in the east, he was nominated by the Republican Party here as a candidate for the assembly, and returning home he entered upon the campaign, making a capable canvass of his district. He received the flattering majority of eight hundred and ninety-three over his competitor, a most excellent man. Mr. Lardner possesses marked energy and determination and is an active factor in political circles. Since coming to Auburn he has frequently done able work on the stump for his party, and has also been one of the most influential promoters of the interests of the town and county along many lines which have contributed to the material upbuilding and progress of this portion of the state. His is a loyal devotion to the county's good, and his efforts have been of benefit in many directions.
Mr. Lardner is a member of the Miners' Association and labored for the mining interests of California through his membership on the mining committee of the legislature. He is also a prominent Mason, holding membership in lodge, chapter, and commandery. He is also a Forester and is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men, and in all these organizations he takes an active interest, being imbued with the helpful and benevolent spirit of the fraternity.
On the 11th of January, 1881, Mr. Lardner was married to Miss Jennie Mitchell, a native of Essex County, New York, and a daughter of William H. Mitchell, now a prominent citizen and leading politician of Beloit, Kansas, who served as a delegate to the national convention held in Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Lardner have five children, all born in Auburn, namely: Mabel Frances, Mary Biddle, William Branson Penn, Georgia Florence and Effa Elvira.
The parents are active members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Lardner is serving as the senior warden and superintendent of the Sunday-school, having occupied both positions for many years. He is a member of the Monday Night Club, whose object is to study and cultivate a taste for literature, science, art, music and patriotism. This is one of the leading organizations of the city and in its work he takes a deep interest. He has a nice home and finds great pleasure in improving his grounds and in caring for his fruits and flowers there. His is a well-rounded nature, in which devotion to a single interest alone has not produced a one-sided development. His career, both public and private, is marked by the strictest integrity and faithfulness to every trust reposed in him. The record of his life is unclouded by any shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He is known as an honorable man, a pleasant, social companion, a devoted husband and father and as one who holds friendship inviolable.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 222-224. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
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Resident of Auburn since: 1872
Children Mabel, Mary, William Jr., Georgia and Effa
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Found on the internet: relation of William Lardner
Trustee 1762-1774
Apprentice to John & Thomas Penn
Receiver-General of Pennsylvania
Comptroller of Customs in Pennsylvania
Lynford Lardner was born in London, England, in 1715. He was the son of John Lardner, a physician of some means who lost most of his money when the South Sea Bubble crashed in 1720-1721. Initially it was supposed Lynford would become a clergyman in the Church of England, but his father's financial loss forced the apprenticeship of Lynford to Thomas and Richard Penn, who were at that time in the wool industry. Richard Penn the elder was married to young Lynford's sister Hannah so the connection was a natural one. After his move to the English countryside in 1732, young Lardner quickly became fond of sport and leisure and of the life of an English gentleman.
Lynford Lardner's ties to the Penn family led to his 1740 move to Pennsylvania and his 1741 appointment there to the post of Receiver-General. Although he tried to perform his duties as required, Larnder never enjoyed the job and was not very good at it. As a result he resigned in 1752, and entered into industry, a pursuit which gave him time to resume hunting and fishing. In 1755 he was appointed to the Governor's Council, and then in 1771 was made Controller of Customs by his nephew John Penn.
Lynford Lardner had seven children with his first wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Branson. After her death in 1760, Lardner married in 1766 Katherine, the daughter of the Thomas Lawrence who was five times mayor of Philadelphia. Lardner died in 1774 and was buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church cemetery.
In 1762 Lardner was elected a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving until his death in 1774.
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Contributor - Kathie
"Wedding Bells—District Attorney W. B. Lardner and Miss Jennie Mitchell were married at the church last Tuesday morning. Promptly at eleven o’clock a carriage drawn by Mr. Crosby’s handsome black team appeared at the church steps, and the intending groom and bride, accompanied by Mr. Frank B. Landner (brother of the happy hero) who acted as best man, and Miss Hattie M. Swan, who acted as bridesmaid, alighted there from and entered the sacred edifice. The church was already comfortably crowded with the dames and damsels of Auburn, to say nothing of a fair leavening of the coarser-grained half of humanity. As the youthful couple marched up the west aisle of the church, Dr. Todd, the organist, saluted them and the audience by the inspiriting tones of the time-honored Wedding March. As the quartet stood under the floral arch and bell in front of the altar, with the venerable and much-beloved Elder Peck as master of ceremonies and the pleasant-faced Mr. Fitch as assisting celebrant in the background, the picture was one to gladden the hearts of the modest maidens and timid swains in the audience and to stir the latent sentiment of more matter-of-fact people. For it is not often that a handsomer couple of couples find their way under the mistletoe. In comparatively short order, the solemn words were said, the sacred vows were plighted, and the happy twain were one. Congratulations followed, after which the newly-wedded pair betook themselves to the residence of Mr. F. Lochey, uncle to the bride, where lunch was partaken of, after which they departed on the lightning train for San Francisco and Monterey. On their return they will take up their residence in that new, snug, and nicely-furnished house which Mr. Lardner recently built for rent.” [Placer Argus, Auburn, Saturday, 1-15-1881]
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March 3, 1888
New town site established by a committee made up of W.B. Lardner, Charles Tuttle, and N. Fulweiler.
Placer Herald
April 30, 1889
Gov. Waterman appointed Hollis Newton, John C. Boggs, W.G. Lardner, M. W. Baker, H.T. Power, G.W. Towle, Jo Hamilton, and W.D. Perkins as directors of Placer Agricultural District No. 20.
Placer Herald
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Prominent among the distinguished member of the bar of Placer County is numbered William Branson Lardner. He is actively connected with the profession which has an important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as conserving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individual rights. In political circles Mr. Lardner has also gained distinction and in 1899 and 1900 represented the thirteenth district of California in the general assembly, and is now state senator from the fifth congressional district.
A native of Michigan, he was born in Niles, on the 12th of December, 1850, and is a representative of an old English family. His great-grandfather, Lynford Lardner, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1740. He was a brother-in-law of Richard Penn and went to Philadelphia in the interest of the Penn heirs, having charge of the estate there. He settled at Lansdowne and had one hundred acres of land at Holmesburg, on the Delaware River. His son, William Lardner, the grandfather of our subject, married Miss Ann Shepherd, of North Carolina, and their son, Lynford Lardner, was born in Philadelphia. Having arrived at years of majority he married Sarah K. Moore, also a native of the Keystone state. In 1832 he removed to Cincinnati, prior to which time he was in the United States Bank in Philadelphia, with Nicholas Biddle, a cousin and one of the most distinguished financiers the country has produced. Later in life Mr. Lardner engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian, while his wife was identified with the Methodist church. They became the parents of nine children. The father died in 1882 at the age of seventy-six years, and is buried at Auburn, California. His wife passed away October 13, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Only four of the family yet survives.
William Branson Lardner, whose name introduces this review, was educated in Cornell College, Iowa, being graduated in that institution with the class of 1875. Determining to enter the profession of law he prepared for the bar by pursuing a course in the law department of the State University of Iowa, in which he was graduated n 1877. Previously he had engaged in teaching school for five years in Iowa and in California, and when he had mastered the principles of jurisprudence sufficient for admission to the bar he came direct to Auburn and opened a law office, in which he has since continued. He has a close and discriminating nature, with keen powers of analysis, is logical in argument, forceful in delivery and convincing in his appeals before court and jury. He is now well known as a well-read lawyer and an able advocate, having been connected with much important litigation whereby his ability has been demonstrated. In 1879 he was elected district attorney and served in that office most capably for two years and ten months, during which time he prosecuted the train-wreckers who had wrecked the train at Cape Horn Mills. This was a very celebrated case, and two of the men were convicted. The able manner in which he handled the suit won for Mr. Lardner considerable celebrity as an able criminal lawyer.
In 1898, while he was in the east, he was nominated by the Republican Party here as a candidate for the assembly, and returning home he entered upon the campaign, making a capable canvass of his district. He received the flattering majority of eight hundred and ninety-three over his competitor, a most excellent man. Mr. Lardner possesses marked energy and determination and is an active factor in political circles. Since coming to Auburn he has frequently done able work on the stump for his party, and has also been one of the most influential promoters of the interests of the town and county along many lines which have contributed to the material upbuilding and progress of this portion of the state. His is a loyal devotion to the county's good, and his efforts have been of benefit in many directions.
Mr. Lardner is a member of the Miners' Association and labored for the mining interests of California through his membership on the mining committee of the legislature. He is also a prominent Mason, holding membership in lodge, chapter, and commandery. He is also a Forester and is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men, and in all these organizations he takes an active interest, being imbued with the helpful and benevolent spirit of the fraternity.
On the 11th of January, 1881, Mr. Lardner was married to Miss Jennie Mitchell, a native of Essex County, New York, and a daughter of William H. Mitchell, now a prominent citizen and leading politician of Beloit, Kansas, who served as a delegate to the national convention held in Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Lardner have five children, all born in Auburn, namely: Mabel Frances, Mary Biddle, William Branson Penn, Georgia Florence and Effa Elvira.
The parents are active members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Lardner is serving as the senior warden and superintendent of the Sunday-school, having occupied both positions for many years. He is a member of the Monday Night Club, whose object is to study and cultivate a taste for literature, science, art, music and patriotism. This is one of the leading organizations of the city and in its work he takes a deep interest. He has a nice home and finds great pleasure in improving his grounds and in caring for his fruits and flowers there. His is a well-rounded nature, in which devotion to a single interest alone has not produced a one-sided development. His career, both public and private, is marked by the strictest integrity and faithfulness to every trust reposed in him. The record of his life is unclouded by any shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He is known as an honorable man, a pleasant, social companion, a devoted husband and father and as one who holds friendship inviolable.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 222-224. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
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Resident of Auburn since: 1872
Children Mabel, Mary, William Jr., Georgia and Effa
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Found on the internet: relation of William Lardner
Trustee 1762-1774
Apprentice to John & Thomas Penn
Receiver-General of Pennsylvania
Comptroller of Customs in Pennsylvania
Lynford Lardner was born in London, England, in 1715. He was the son of John Lardner, a physician of some means who lost most of his money when the South Sea Bubble crashed in 1720-1721. Initially it was supposed Lynford would become a clergyman in the Church of England, but his father's financial loss forced the apprenticeship of Lynford to Thomas and Richard Penn, who were at that time in the wool industry. Richard Penn the elder was married to young Lynford's sister Hannah so the connection was a natural one. After his move to the English countryside in 1732, young Lardner quickly became fond of sport and leisure and of the life of an English gentleman.
Lynford Lardner's ties to the Penn family led to his 1740 move to Pennsylvania and his 1741 appointment there to the post of Receiver-General. Although he tried to perform his duties as required, Larnder never enjoyed the job and was not very good at it. As a result he resigned in 1752, and entered into industry, a pursuit which gave him time to resume hunting and fishing. In 1755 he was appointed to the Governor's Council, and then in 1771 was made Controller of Customs by his nephew John Penn.
Lynford Lardner had seven children with his first wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Branson. After her death in 1760, Lardner married in 1766 Katherine, the daughter of the Thomas Lawrence who was five times mayor of Philadelphia. Lardner died in 1774 and was buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church cemetery.
In 1762 Lardner was elected a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving until his death in 1774.
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Contributor - Kathie
"Wedding Bells—District Attorney W. B. Lardner and Miss Jennie Mitchell were married at the church last Tuesday morning. Promptly at eleven o’clock a carriage drawn by Mr. Crosby’s handsome black team appeared at the church steps, and the intending groom and bride, accompanied by Mr. Frank B. Landner (brother of the happy hero) who acted as best man, and Miss Hattie M. Swan, who acted as bridesmaid, alighted there from and entered the sacred edifice. The church was already comfortably crowded with the dames and damsels of Auburn, to say nothing of a fair leavening of the coarser-grained half of humanity. As the youthful couple marched up the west aisle of the church, Dr. Todd, the organist, saluted them and the audience by the inspiriting tones of the time-honored Wedding March. As the quartet stood under the floral arch and bell in front of the altar, with the venerable and much-beloved Elder Peck as master of ceremonies and the pleasant-faced Mr. Fitch as assisting celebrant in the background, the picture was one to gladden the hearts of the modest maidens and timid swains in the audience and to stir the latent sentiment of more matter-of-fact people. For it is not often that a handsomer couple of couples find their way under the mistletoe. In comparatively short order, the solemn words were said, the sacred vows were plighted, and the happy twain were one. Congratulations followed, after which the newly-wedded pair betook themselves to the residence of Mr. F. Lochey, uncle to the bride, where lunch was partaken of, after which they departed on the lightning train for San Francisco and Monterey. On their return they will take up their residence in that new, snug, and nicely-furnished house which Mr. Lardner recently built for rent.” [Placer Argus, Auburn, Saturday, 1-15-1881]
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He was a Placer County Assemblyman.
March 3, 1888
New town site established by a committee made up of W.B. Lardner, Charles Tuttle, and N. Fulweiler.
Placer Herald
April 30, 1889
Gov. Waterman appointed Hollis Newton, John C. Boggs, W.G. Lardner, M. W. Baker, H.T. Power, G.W. Towle, Jo Hamilton, and W.D. Perkins as directors of Placer Agricultural District No. 20.
Placer Herald
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Prominent among the distinguished member of the bar of Placer County is numbered William Branson Lardner. He is actively connected with the profession which has an important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as conserving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individual rights. In political circles Mr. Lardner has also gained distinction and in 1899 and 1900 represented the thirteenth district of California in the general assembly, and is now state senator from the fifth congressional district.
A native of Michigan, he was born in Niles, on the 12th of December, 1850, and is a representative of an old English family. His great-grandfather, Lynford Lardner, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1740. He was a brother-in-law of Richard Penn and went to Philadelphia in the interest of the Penn heirs, having charge of the estate there. He settled at Lansdowne and had one hundred acres of land at Holmesburg, on the Delaware River. His son, William Lardner, the grandfather of our subject, married Miss Ann Shepherd, of North Carolina, and their son, Lynford Lardner, was born in Philadelphia. Having arrived at years of majority he married Sarah K. Moore, also a native of the Keystone state. In 1832 he removed to Cincinnati, prior to which time he was in the United States Bank in Philadelphia, with Nicholas Biddle, a cousin and one of the most distinguished financiers the country has produced. Later in life Mr. Lardner engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian, while his wife was identified with the Methodist church. They became the parents of nine children. The father died in 1882 at the age of seventy-six years, and is buried at Auburn, California. His wife passed away October 13, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Only four of the family yet survives.
William Branson Lardner, whose name introduces this review, was educated in Cornell College, Iowa, being graduated in that institution with the class of 1875. Determining to enter the profession of law he prepared for the bar by pursuing a course in the law department of the State University of Iowa, in which he was graduated n 1877. Previously he had engaged in teaching school for five years in Iowa and in California, and when he had mastered the principles of jurisprudence sufficient for admission to the bar he came direct to Auburn and opened a law office, in which he has since continued. He has a close and discriminating nature, with keen powers of analysis, is logical in argument, forceful in delivery and convincing in his appeals before court and jury. He is now well known as a well-read lawyer and an able advocate, having been connected with much important litigation whereby his ability has been demonstrated. In 1879 he was elected district attorney and served in that office most capably for two years and ten months, during which time he prosecuted the train-wreckers who had wrecked the train at Cape Horn Mills. This was a very celebrated case, and two of the men were convicted. The able manner in which he handled the suit won for Mr. Lardner considerable celebrity as an able criminal lawyer.
In 1898, while he was in the east, he was nominated by the Republican Party here as a candidate for the assembly, and returning home he entered upon the campaign, making a capable canvass of his district. He received the flattering majority of eight hundred and ninety-three over his competitor, a most excellent man. Mr. Lardner possesses marked energy and determination and is an active factor in political circles. Since coming to Auburn he has frequently done able work on the stump for his party, and has also been one of the most influential promoters of the interests of the town and county along many lines which have contributed to the material upbuilding and progress of this portion of the state. His is a loyal devotion to the county's good, and his efforts have been of benefit in many directions.
Mr. Lardner is a member of the Miners' Association and labored for the mining interests of California through his membership on the mining committee of the legislature. He is also a prominent Mason, holding membership in lodge, chapter, and commandery. He is also a Forester and is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men, and in all these organizations he takes an active interest, being imbued with the helpful and benevolent spirit of the fraternity.
On the 11th of January, 1881, Mr. Lardner was married to Miss Jennie Mitchell, a native of Essex County, New York, and a daughter of William H. Mitchell, now a prominent citizen and leading politician of Beloit, Kansas, who served as a delegate to the national convention held in Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Lardner have five children, all born in Auburn, namely: Mabel Frances, Mary Biddle, William Branson Penn, Georgia Florence and Effa Elvira.
The parents are active members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Lardner is serving as the senior warden and superintendent of the Sunday-school, having occupied both positions for many years. He is a member of the Monday Night Club, whose object is to study and cultivate a taste for literature, science, art, music and patriotism. This is one of the leading organizations of the city and in its work he takes a deep interest. He has a nice home and finds great pleasure in improving his grounds and in caring for his fruits and flowers there. His is a well-rounded nature, in which devotion to a single interest alone has not produced a one-sided development. His career, both public and private, is marked by the strictest integrity and faithfulness to every trust reposed in him. The record of his life is unclouded by any shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He is known as an honorable man, a pleasant, social companion, a devoted husband and father and as one who holds friendship inviolable.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 222-224. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
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Resident of Auburn since: 1872
Children Mabel, Mary, William Jr., Georgia and Effa
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Found on the internet: relation of William Lardner
Trustee 1762-1774
Apprentice to John & Thomas Penn
Receiver-General of Pennsylvania
Comptroller of Customs in Pennsylvania
Lynford Lardner was born in London, England, in 1715. He was the son of John Lardner, a physician of some means who lost most of his money when the South Sea Bubble crashed in 1720-1721. Initially it was supposed Lynford would become a clergyman in the Church of England, but his father's financial loss forced the apprenticeship of Lynford to Thomas and Richard Penn, who were at that time in the wool industry. Richard Penn the elder was married to young Lynford's sister Hannah so the connection was a natural one. After his move to the English countryside in 1732, young Lardner quickly became fond of sport and leisure and of the life of an English gentleman.
Lynford Lardner's ties to the Penn family led to his 1740 move to Pennsylvania and his 1741 appointment there to the post of Receiver-General. Although he tried to perform his duties as required, Larnder never enjoyed the job and was not very good at it. As a result he resigned in 1752, and entered into industry, a pursuit which gave him time to resume hunting and fishing. In 1755 he was appointed to the Governor's Council, and then in 1771 was made Controller of Customs by his nephew John Penn.
Lynford Lardner had seven children with his first wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Branson. After her death in 1760, Lardner married in 1766 Katherine, the daughter of the Thomas Lawrence who was five times mayor of Philadelphia. Lardner died in 1774 and was buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church cemetery.
In 1762 Lardner was elected a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving until his death in 1774.
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Contributor - Kathie
"Wedding Bells—District Attorney W. B. Lardner and Miss Jennie Mitchell were married at the church last Tuesday morning. Promptly at eleven o’clock a carriage drawn by Mr. Crosby’s handsome black team appeared at the church steps, and the intending groom and bride, accompanied by Mr. Frank B. Landner (brother of the happy hero) who acted as best man, and Miss Hattie M. Swan, who acted as bridesmaid, alighted there from and entered the sacred edifice. The church was already comfortably crowded with the dames and damsels of Auburn, to say nothing of a fair leavening of the coarser-grained half of humanity. As the youthful couple marched up the west aisle of the church, Dr. Todd, the organist, saluted them and the audience by the inspiriting tones of the time-honored Wedding March. As the quartet stood under the floral arch and bell in front of the altar, with the venerable and much-beloved Elder Peck as master of ceremonies and the pleasant-faced Mr. Fitch as assisting celebrant in the background, the picture was one to gladden the hearts of the modest maidens and timid swains in the audience and to stir the latent sentiment of more matter-of-fact people. For it is not often that a handsomer couple of couples find their way under the mistletoe. In comparatively short order, the solemn words were said, the sacred vows were plighted, and the happy twain were one. Congratulations followed, after which the newly-wedded pair betook themselves to the residence of Mr. F. Lochey, uncle to the bride, where lunch was partaken of, after which they departed on the lightning train for San Francisco and Monterey. On their return they will take up their residence in that new, snug, and nicely-furnished house which Mr. Lardner recently built for rent.” [Placer Argus, Auburn, Saturday, 1-15-1881]
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March 3, 1888
New town site established by a committee made up of W.B. Lardner, Charles Tuttle, and N. Fulweiler.
Placer Herald
April 30, 1889
Gov. Waterman appointed Hollis Newton, John C. Boggs, W.G. Lardner, M. W. Baker, H.T. Power, G.W. Towle, Jo Hamilton, and W.D. Perkins as directors of Placer Agricultural District No. 20.
Placer Herald
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Prominent among the distinguished member of the bar of Placer County is numbered William Branson Lardner. He is actively connected with the profession which has an important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as conserving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individual rights. In political circles Mr. Lardner has also gained distinction and in 1899 and 1900 represented the thirteenth district of California in the general assembly, and is now state senator from the fifth congressional district.
A native of Michigan, he was born in Niles, on the 12th of December, 1850, and is a representative of an old English family. His great-grandfather, Lynford Lardner, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1740. He was a brother-in-law of Richard Penn and went to Philadelphia in the interest of the Penn heirs, having charge of the estate there. He settled at Lansdowne and had one hundred acres of land at Holmesburg, on the Delaware River. His son, William Lardner, the grandfather of our subject, married Miss Ann Shepherd, of North Carolina, and their son, Lynford Lardner, was born in Philadelphia. Having arrived at years of majority he married Sarah K. Moore, also a native of the Keystone state. In 1832 he removed to Cincinnati, prior to which time he was in the United States Bank in Philadelphia, with Nicholas Biddle, a cousin and one of the most distinguished financiers the country has produced. Later in life Mr. Lardner engaged in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati. In religious belief he was an Episcopalian, while his wife was identified with the Methodist church. They became the parents of nine children. The father died in 1882 at the age of seventy-six years, and is buried at Auburn, California. His wife passed away October 13, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Only four of the family yet survives.
William Branson Lardner, whose name introduces this review, was educated in Cornell College, Iowa, being graduated in that institution with the class of 1875. Determining to enter the profession of law he prepared for the bar by pursuing a course in the law department of the State University of Iowa, in which he was graduated n 1877. Previously he had engaged in teaching school for five years in Iowa and in California, and when he had mastered the principles of jurisprudence sufficient for admission to the bar he came direct to Auburn and opened a law office, in which he has since continued. He has a close and discriminating nature, with keen powers of analysis, is logical in argument, forceful in delivery and convincing in his appeals before court and jury. He is now well known as a well-read lawyer and an able advocate, having been connected with much important litigation whereby his ability has been demonstrated. In 1879 he was elected district attorney and served in that office most capably for two years and ten months, during which time he prosecuted the train-wreckers who had wrecked the train at Cape Horn Mills. This was a very celebrated case, and two of the men were convicted. The able manner in which he handled the suit won for Mr. Lardner considerable celebrity as an able criminal lawyer.
In 1898, while he was in the east, he was nominated by the Republican Party here as a candidate for the assembly, and returning home he entered upon the campaign, making a capable canvass of his district. He received the flattering majority of eight hundred and ninety-three over his competitor, a most excellent man. Mr. Lardner possesses marked energy and determination and is an active factor in political circles. Since coming to Auburn he has frequently done able work on the stump for his party, and has also been one of the most influential promoters of the interests of the town and county along many lines which have contributed to the material upbuilding and progress of this portion of the state. His is a loyal devotion to the county's good, and his efforts have been of benefit in many directions.
Mr. Lardner is a member of the Miners' Association and labored for the mining interests of California through his membership on the mining committee of the legislature. He is also a prominent Mason, holding membership in lodge, chapter, and commandery. He is also a Forester and is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men, and in all these organizations he takes an active interest, being imbued with the helpful and benevolent spirit of the fraternity.
On the 11th of January, 1881, Mr. Lardner was married to Miss Jennie Mitchell, a native of Essex County, New York, and a daughter of William H. Mitchell, now a prominent citizen and leading politician of Beloit, Kansas, who served as a delegate to the national convention held in Philadelphia in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Lardner have five children, all born in Auburn, namely: Mabel Frances, Mary Biddle, William Branson Penn, Georgia Florence and Effa Elvira.
The parents are active members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Lardner is serving as the senior warden and superintendent of the Sunday-school, having occupied both positions for many years. He is a member of the Monday Night Club, whose object is to study and cultivate a taste for literature, science, art, music and patriotism. This is one of the leading organizations of the city and in its work he takes a deep interest. He has a nice home and finds great pleasure in improving his grounds and in caring for his fruits and flowers there. His is a well-rounded nature, in which devotion to a single interest alone has not produced a one-sided development. His career, both public and private, is marked by the strictest integrity and faithfulness to every trust reposed in him. The record of his life is unclouded by any shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He is known as an honorable man, a pleasant, social companion, a devoted husband and father and as one who holds friendship inviolable.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: "A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern California", Pages 222-224. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
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Resident of Auburn since: 1872
Children Mabel, Mary, William Jr., Georgia and Effa
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Found on the internet: relation of William Lardner
Trustee 1762-1774
Apprentice to John & Thomas Penn
Receiver-General of Pennsylvania
Comptroller of Customs in Pennsylvania
Lynford Lardner was born in London, England, in 1715. He was the son of John Lardner, a physician of some means who lost most of his money when the South Sea Bubble crashed in 1720-1721. Initially it was supposed Lynford would become a clergyman in the Church of England, but his father's financial loss forced the apprenticeship of Lynford to Thomas and Richard Penn, who were at that time in the wool industry. Richard Penn the elder was married to young Lynford's sister Hannah so the connection was a natural one. After his move to the English countryside in 1732, young Lardner quickly became fond of sport and leisure and of the life of an English gentleman.
Lynford Lardner's ties to the Penn family led to his 1740 move to Pennsylvania and his 1741 appointment there to the post of Receiver-General. Although he tried to perform his duties as required, Larnder never enjoyed the job and was not very good at it. As a result he resigned in 1752, and entered into industry, a pursuit which gave him time to resume hunting and fishing. In 1755 he was appointed to the Governor's Council, and then in 1771 was made Controller of Customs by his nephew John Penn.
Lynford Lardner had seven children with his first wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Philadelphia merchant William Branson. After her death in 1760, Lardner married in 1766 Katherine, the daughter of the Thomas Lawrence who was five times mayor of Philadelphia. Lardner died in 1774 and was buried in Philadelphia's Christ Church cemetery.
In 1762 Lardner was elected a trustee of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), serving until his death in 1774.
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Contributor - Kathie
"Wedding Bells—District Attorney W. B. Lardner and Miss Jennie Mitchell were married at the church last Tuesday morning. Promptly at eleven o’clock a carriage drawn by Mr. Crosby’s handsome black team appeared at the church steps, and the intending groom and bride, accompanied by Mr. Frank B. Landner (brother of the happy hero) who acted as best man, and Miss Hattie M. Swan, who acted as bridesmaid, alighted there from and entered the sacred edifice. The church was already comfortably crowded with the dames and damsels of Auburn, to say nothing of a fair leavening of the coarser-grained half of humanity. As the youthful couple marched up the west aisle of the church, Dr. Todd, the organist, saluted them and the audience by the inspiriting tones of the time-honored Wedding March. As the quartet stood under the floral arch and bell in front of the altar, with the venerable and much-beloved Elder Peck as master of ceremonies and the pleasant-faced Mr. Fitch as assisting celebrant in the background, the picture was one to gladden the hearts of the modest maidens and timid swains in the audience and to stir the latent sentiment of more matter-of-fact people. For it is not often that a handsomer couple of couples find their way under the mistletoe. In comparatively short order, the solemn words were said, the sacred vows were plighted, and the happy twain were one. Congratulations followed, after which the newly-wedded pair betook themselves to the residence of Mr. F. Lochey, uncle to the bride, where lunch was partaken of, after which they departed on the lightning train for San Francisco and Monterey. On their return they will take up their residence in that new, snug, and nicely-furnished house which Mr. Lardner recently built for rent.” [Placer Argus, Auburn, Saturday, 1-15-1881]
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