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Lowell James Hardy Jr. papers.
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Lowell James Hardy Jr. papersCreator/Contributor:
Hardy, Lowell James, Jr, 1844-1928, creator, creator.Abstract:
Journal recounts some of Hardy's experiences as a student at the College of California in Oakland and later life. Includes
a list of faculty and instructors, a hand-colored membership list of the Lincoln Society, of which he served as president
in 1868, and various accounts ledgers. Miscellaneous news clippings, correspondence, and a flyer for his candidacy as Councilman-at-Large
from the Seventh Ward (Oakland, California).
Date:
1862 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPoliticians -- California -- San Francisco
Hommes politiques -- Californie -- San Francisco
Students
Politicians
California -- San Francisco
College of California -- Students
College of California.
Jr -- Hardy, Lowell James -- 1844-1928 -- Archives
Jr -- Hardy, Lowell James -- 1844-1928 -- Diaries
Note:
Gift of Sharon Ballard; 2014.
Photograph album transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2012.126).
Lowell James Hardy, Jr. was born in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1844. His family sailed to California in 1850 and settled
in Oakland in 1851. He graduated in the third class (1866) of the College of California (precursor to the University of California)
and then attended Harvard Law School. With his wife Mary Little Hardy, he had three children, Estelle, Lowell and George.
Hardy served in the California State Assembly for San Francisco County, 1880-1881, and died November 24, 1928 in Alameda County,
California.
Lowell James Hardy Jr. papers, BANC MSS 2014/119, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Diarydiaries.
Diaries.
Archives.
Diaries.
Journaux intimes.
Physical Description:
print
1 (121 pages) + loose items.
Language:
English