The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1905-03-01
A DEATH
SUMMONS
Colonel James Allen Hardin, a
Pioneer Of Humboldt County,
Gone to Other Realms

Simon Reinhart received a wire from
State Senator c. II. E. Hardin this after
noon conveying the sad intelligence that
his father, Colonel j. A Hardin, passed
out of this life last night at IL o'clock.
The many friends of Colonel Hardin in
Humboldt county and all through the
State will be bowed with grief over the
loss of a noble man, kind husband and
father, Thoughtful neighbor and a true
friend. Colonel James Allen Hardin was
born near Louisville, Kentucky, in 1880.
He came to this coast with the Argon-
auts and for years followed mining in
California. Fortune was kind to him,
and he accumulated snug fortune which
he brought into Humboldt county in 1872
and settled at Kane Springs and Sod
House. He Immediately left for the State
of Texas, where he invested in a large
drove of cattle and took the trail for Me-
vada at a time when men with less brave
hearts than throbbed in he breast of
young Hardin would have quailed under
the hardships encountered He finally
made the trip successfully with his herd
and soon saw them multiply until they
numbered into four figures and he became
one of the leading cattle kings on the
Nevada ranges.
Hardin was obliged to stand helplessly
by and see rs or so per cent ofhis stock
die of starvation. But ever brave and
strong-hearted, he went to work to repair
his lost fortune and soon was ION his
feet again and numbered his herds ON
a Thousand hills
He leaves a valuable estate in Nevada
and also in California For several years
he has made Santa Rosa his winter home
and only spent a part of the time in this
county
Colonel Hardin was man among the
best of men in any OF the walks of life
and in his death at three score and If
teen the State of Nevada loses one Of her
foremost citizens, his family loses the
counsel of a loving father and husband
and his friends lose a man ever thought
full of the comfort of others and one who
would not stoop to a dshonorable act
for all the gold in the world. He leaves
in his immediate family a wife who has
stood by him in all the vicissitudes of
this troubled life for half a century,
three daughtrs and two sons. His eldest
daughter, Eudora, is still under the pa
rental roof at his beautiful home at
Santa Rosa: another of his daughters is
married to w. J. Eanlley and lives near
the home in Santa Rosa and still another
is married to c. p. Pooler and is living
in San Francisco. Senator G H. f. Har-
din and A. r. Hardin are his two sons
and Senator Hardin was at his fathers
bedside when the summons came that re-
moves him from this to another world.
A. r. Hardin was at the Rebel Creek
ranch and came in on a telegram from
Senator Hardin and went west last night.
But what a change will he witness when
he arrives in the city this afternoon!
Where formerly he was always greeted
bv an indulgent father. now nothing re-
mains but a lifeless piece of clay 1ne
heart of everv one who had the pleasure
of the friendship of the family goes out
to them I'm their sore affiiction.
Colonel Hardin will be buried at Santa
Rosa, but the Silver State is not inform
ed as to the time of his burial.