James BARDIN

28 Oct 1856 - ABOUT 1932

Father: James BARDIN
Mother: Lucinda WALKER

Family 1 : Mary HAMPTON
Family 2 : Lena PETERSON 


 
                                     _James BARDIN ______+
                   _William BARDIN _|
                  |                 |_Celia (Mary) HORN _
 _James BARDIN ___|
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|                 |_Nancy COOK _____|
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|--James BARDIN 
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|_Lucinda WALKER _|
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Notes:

In the 1880 Census record for Alizal (Alisal) Township, Monterey Co., CA ( E 53 S 4 p. 44), there is a listing at dwelling #27 for James Bardin, age 23, bp. CA (father bp. NC, mother bp. SC). Enumerated with him is his wife, Mary (a. 19, bp. TN, both parents bp. TN). They are living with a John Armstrong, a 40 year old farmer, bp. NY (father bp. NY, mother bp. Scotland) and wife, Christine Armstrong, a. 45, bp. NY (both parents bp. Scotland), and children, John A. Armstrong, son, a. 17, bp. NY; Edwin Armstrong, son, a. 13, bp. NY; and Nille Armstrong, daughter, a. 9, bp. CA.

Listed in the 1890 San Jose City Directory, including Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties for Blanco, Monterey County:
  Bardin James Jr, farmer    

From America's Salad Bowl: An Agricultural History of the Salinas Valley, by Burton Anderson (Monterey County Historical Society, Salinas, CA: 2000), p. 60:
  One of the first farmers to grow surgar beets for the Western Sugar Beet Refinary was James ("Jim") Bardin II. In 1892, he grew 225 acres on his Blanco ranch that yielded 27 tons per acre. The cost of growing and harvesting the crop was $78.03 per acre and returned a profit of $59.34, including pasturing cattle on beet tops.  
His son, James H. Bardin also continued in beet farming.
From America's Salad Bowl, p. 79:
  One method of unloading beets was the use of a tilting-bed wagon where one side could dropped down and the beets fell into a railroad car below. This modified wagon was the invention of James H. Bardin the first beet grower in the Salinas Valley (father of late cattleman, Jim Bardin).  

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