Hardin, James T.

HARDIN

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 6/9/2005 at 09:07:04

The Fairfield Weekly Journal
Jan. 31, 1901
Page 5 col. 6

“His skelton was packed in a trunk and brought back to Fairfield by C. GILLHAM and HARDIN BUTLER, who was a cousin, and buried in the Fairfield cemetery, HARDIN having been a Mason.”

p. 372, “History of Jefferson County, Iowa,” Western Historical Co., Chicago: 1879. JAMES T. HARDIN was the teacher of the first school…and is well remembered by the old settlers and scholars of that period. When the gold fever reached here from the Pacific Slope, he fell a victim to the mania….