James Henry Hardison (1841 - 1929)

Born 5 Feb 1841 in China Village, Kennebec, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Elizabeth (Brooking) Hardison — married 20 Jan 1876 in St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 4 Nov 1929 at age 88 in Montebello, California

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Biography

From "Our Folks and Your Folks", 1919

James H. Hardison Family

James H. Hardison, the sixth son of Ivory and Dorcas (Libbey) Hardison, is a resident of Geneva, Indiana. He married Miss Mary Brooking and their children are Wallace B., who is unmarried, and Bertha, who married Hubert O. Butler. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have five children: James H., William O., Mary E., Julia F., and Bertha H. They reside in Fullerton, Calif. The life sketch of James H. Hardison as a pioneer oil man can best be given in his own words and is as follows:

"I will try and write some of my recollections of boyhood days and also of my leaving home."

I was born in China Village, Kennebec County, Maine, February 5, 1841, my father having moved the family from a farm in Winslow Township to China Village before he left for Aroostook County, where he took up several lots of land and built a house before he moved his family. I was two years old when we went to this new home in the wilderness of Aroostook county.

The farm was located on Letter H Township, about ten miles from Presque Isle and two and one-half miles from Caribou and one hundred and seventy miles from Bangor, where was the nearest railroad. About the earliest incident that I remember was when my sisters, Dorcas and Mary Ann, and our hired girl, were down to the river about one-half mile away where the clothes were taken once a week in the summer to be washed. I was with them and found a pocket knife on the shore and each of the girls begged me to give it to her and I gave it to Dorcas, my oldest sister, because I liked her best.

Our house was always a real home. Mother was a remarkable woman; it was astonishing how she could manage to get through with her work and in the after- noon have time to change her dress and slick up and be ready for company- Once a week Mrs. Walton, a native woman, who lived on the river about a mile away, came to help with the washing, and that was all the help she had. Father was always a "good provider," as the Yankees say.

We always had several yoke of oxen to do the farm work, and we boys had fun in breaking the young steers, by putting a pair behind the plow that was hitched to the first yoke, until they got used to it. Father made the ox yokes and ox carts and wheels, and they were good ones, too. The summers seemed awful long and we boys were always glad when winter came so that we could get up the winter's wood before school commenced. And for sport there was usually a chance to skate along the river before the snow came.

Our school term was three months in the winter and the teacher boarded around. We always had our share of them, especially the ones that we liked. The school master made an alphabetical list of the names of the boys who were old enough to build the fire in the school house in the mornings, and at night he would read the name of the boy who was to build the fire the next morning. The boy who did not have the school house warm and comfortable was a very unpopular boy with the girls, whose task was to sweep the school house at night, a list for sweeping being made the same as the one for building fires. The most of the pupils brought their dinners. We had a little over a mile to go. Well do I remember the red firkin filled with doughnuts and turnovers made of mince meat that mother used to keep in the cellar ready for these school lunches. One of the most popular sports was sliding down hill on Presque Isle hill during glorious moonlight nights. The boys and girls would come for miles and stay until nearly midnight and then skip for home. It was grand sport, healthy and invigorating and innocent.

Another fine winter sport was hunting. Along in March, when the snow was five or six feet deep, the sun would melt the top and it. would freeze at night to be strong enough to bear a horse for a time in the morning. We used snow shoes, and could go rapidly over the crust after game such as moose and deer. I remember going once with my brother Oliver to the head waters of Salmon Brook and we killed a moose and brought it out to Wilder's mill and went home and then the next day I took a horse and went after it.

At another time brother Harvey and I went up the Tobique river to Bishop's lumber camp, a distance of thirty miles, and I shot a moose and brought it home. Father used to allow us boys to have a piece of the new burned land to plant potatoes and beans for ourselves and in this way we made a little pocket money by selling our crops to the lumbermen in the winter time.

When I was about sixteen years old I went to Lower Stillwater, now called Orono, to work in a saw mill. I also worked one season in a mill at Great Works and one winter in a cotton mill in Lewiston, where my boy-hood friend, Jimmy Small, was a bookkeeper in the Androscoggin cotton mills. While I was in Orono I attended the Universalist Sunday school and we had Governor Washburn for the teacher of the Bible class.

In the spring of 1865 I went to Pennsylvania, and on my way stopped over Sunday in Laconing and had an opportunity to see a rebel prison camp with several thousand prisoners. I went from there to Williamsport and from there to a little town on the west branch of the Susquehana river near Lockhaven, to work in a saw mill. I had been there but a little while when the men in the mill struck, and hearing of the excitement in the oil region I took the train for Curry and from that point I went on a train of box cars over the Oil Creek railroad to Shafer, six miles from Pithole, where the oil excitement was intense. These box cars were loaded with passengers, many riding on the top because there was no room inside. At Shafer we all got off and went on foot to Pithole where several wells only six hundred feet deep were flowing a thousand barrels a day. This oil was worth eight dollars a barrel, but it all had to be hauled in wagons to the railroad six miles away, or to McCray's Landing on the Allegheny river above Oil City.

The price for hauling was two dollars, or two dollars and fifty cents per barrel, and there were a thousand teams to be loaded every morning. It made no difference how early a man got to the wells ; there would always be a long line of teams ahead of him to be loaded. I made a trade for a team on the shares, dividing the profits after all expenses were paid between us equally. In about a year a pipe line was built and then I went to drilling my first well and took an interest in it as payment for my work.

In the meantime my brother Harvey came from Maine and commenced work as I had done at first, in teaming, but he soon got a job at gauging for the pipe line that had a tank at the mouth of Pithole Creek at Oleopolis. The line was a six inch gravity cast iron line and the first oil that was turned into it went with such force that it knocked the tank down. The first well that I drilled was on the flat not far below the wells on the Holmden farm. Will Dean, Eugene Dean and a man by the name of Campbell, and myself, were to have one thirty-second interest and our board each, making one-third for our work.

We finished the well in good time, but it was a dry hole. Then we went over to Pioneer and took an interest with Lyman and Milton Stewart and drilled two wells on the noted Benninghoof farm whose owner, a miserly old German, was afterwards gagged at his farm home and robbed of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The wells that we drilled proved a success and from Pioneer we went to Shamburg, where Lyman Stewart had purchased the Tallman farm for sixty-four thousand dollars. Milton Stewart, Frank Andrews and J. W. Irwin were partners in the purchase. Lyman Stewart made arrangements with Hank Webster and me to form a drilling company and drill the wells on this Tallman farm. I got a string of iron pole tools with left hand threads to be used to unscrew the tools that were stuck in the mud vein just above the oil sand, usually, and I had plenty of work to do in this line until they got to using big casing, shutting off the water and drilling through it, and then the mud vein disappeared.

One time I was over to Irwin's office near Petroleum Center, and he said to me, "I have got to buy Lyman Stewart a gold watch and chain." I said, "How so?" and he replied, "When I put in that one thousand dollars for one-sixty-fourth share in that Tallman farm, Lyman said that farm was going to pay a million dollars, and I told him if it did I would buy him a good gold watch and chain." "And here," he said, as he placed the statement on the table, "is a statement showing that more than a million of money has been taken from there."

While we were at Shamburg Charles P. Collins came and immediately went to work with us. Brother Wallace also came about this time and went to work at pumping on a well we owned that was located at Pit- hole Creek near Oleopolis. In 1871 we went down to Parker's Landing, and Harvey and I bought out Lyman Stewart's share in the tools and we went to drilling by contract wells in Butler and Clarion Counties.

I joined the Odd Fellows at St. Petersburg in 1872 and the Masons in 1874. On January 20th, 1876, I married the girl I had waited for for ten years. Her name was Miss Mary E. Brooking, then a resident of Mercer, Penn., but a native of St. Johns, New Foundland. Her father, Captain John Brooking, went down with his vessel and soon after his death the widow and family of five girls and one boy, came from St. Johns, New Foundland, to Mercer, Penn. Mary was the oldest child and felt that she could not leave her mother until the younger children had grown up. We commenced housekeeping in St. Petersburg, and in May my mother came from her far-away home in Northern Maine to visit her three sons and the three daughter-in-laws that she had never seen (Harvey and Wallace were married before I was.) We were all living in Clarion County, and when she got through with her visit Wallace went with her to the Centennial in Philadelphia and from there she went home to Maine.

Later in the same year my sister, Mrs. Dorcas Collins, Miss Ida Merrill, Aunt Adaline Hardison and her son, Haines, my sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Bishop, Waldo Hardison, Charles P. Collins and Lowell Hardison, and my wife and I, formed a happy family group in visiting the Centennial for several days, after which we went to Washington for a short visit. When my sister Dorcas returned to her home she had a new daughter-in-law, for Miss Ida Merrill had become the wife of her oldest son, Charles P. Collins, a marriage that joined two pioneer families of Aroostook County.

In 1878, I moved with my family to Bradford, McKean County, where I lived for five years and operated a patent casing spear which was used to loosen casing that could not be pulled any other way. Then, for six years, I left the oil business and went to farming in Kansas, four and a half miles from Salina on the Smoky Hill River. Then we went back to Pennsylvania, and in company with C. P. Collins, I drilled a good many wells and made many dear friends in the four years that we lived there in Tionesta.

Business changes again followed, for in 1892 we removed to Geneva, Ind., where in company with C. P. Collins and J. R. Leonard, we' operated under the name of Collins, Hardison and Leonard, drilling a good many wells, and in 1895 we incorporated the Superior Oil Co , with C. P. Collins as president, James H. Hardison, vice-president, Harry Heasley, Secretary, and James Leonard, Treasurer. Chester W. Brown was with us as field superintendent for a year and made his home with us. I put in the first power for pumping a group of wells that was installed in Indiana, bringing a man from Tionesta who understood how to do it.

In 1901, the Superior Oil Company sold out most of its property, and my brother Wallace wrote and invited my wife and me to spend the winter with him in Los Angeles, saying that he would buy a house if we would come. We gladly accepted the invitation and Aunt Mary, as nearly everyone called her, and myself, accompanied by our niece, Miss Edna Dean, who had been in our home ever since the death of her parents when she was about ten years old, arrived in Los Angeles after a pleasant journey and were met at the station and conveyed to the fine commodious residence that Wallace had bought.

The next morning my brother took Aunt Mary to the kitchen and introducing her to the Chinaman cook, one of the best in the land, said: "Lon, you will take your orders from Mrs. Hardison." Lon looked a little sour at first, but soon got over it and after a short time volunteered to do the sweeping and other work in the house. He found Aunt Mary the best boss he ever had and about the only thing she taught him to cook was baked beans and brown bread. We could go away and when we returned be sure of finding him there and glad to see us.

Edna had an aunt, a sister of her father, who lived in Escondido, to whom she made an extended visit. We had many visitors in Los Angeles, and among them was Sam M. Jones (Golden Rule Jones) and who made his headquarters with us. He was an old friend of us all and we greatly respected him. He was not very well at this time and died not long after. Aunt Mary and I rode in the carriage, which contained Brand Whitlock, in the funeral procession to the cemetery. Whitlock was one of the speakers at the funeral. We visited in Los Angeles for about five months and then started for home, stopping off to see the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona.

I arrived home in May, 1902, and the Superior Oil Company having a few leases left, I again went to work in drilling wells and continued in this until 1913, when Waldo A. Hardison and friends purchased the stock. It was then that Aunt Mary and I decided that we would visit again in California. Consequently we left for Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific and arrived in Los Angeles a few days before Christmas. Chester Brown took us the next day to our daughter, Mrs. Bertha Buder, who lived near Brea, and we had the pleasure of eating our Christmas dinner with her and her family.

We visited the relatives in Santa Paula and I attended the Universalist church there, and heard a Universalist preacher for the first time in many years. We had a very pleasant time in Southern California, but the death of my brother Wallace had left a vacancy which could not be filled. He had made a proposition to me not long before his death to come to Los Angeles and live on a tract of land he owned in South Pasadena, and I had concluded to do so, but was not quite ready to go. There was to be a large picnic of all the family connection and friends at Santa Paula, and Wallace urged me to start in time to attend this reunion of old friends. I have always felt that if I had gone at that time he would not have taken that fatal trip for he would have been at the picnic.

We remained in California about six months and then started for home over the Salt Lake road and visited the great Mormon temple and other interesting sights in Salt Lake City. The asthma, which afflicted me many years and for which I sought relief in many ways, has left me. About a year after we came back from California, I noticed that I could not see to read as well as usual so I consulted an occulist, but obtained no relief. Finally, I went to an eye specialist and he said that I had a cataract on the eye and that it must get ripe before he could operate on it. While waiting for this cataract on the left eye to develop, one came on the right eye and was ready for the operation before the other one was. There is a popular opinion that a cataract is a growth on the eye, but this is not so. A cataract is "an opacity of the crystalline lens or its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight." This crystalline lens lies behind the pupil of the eye and the surgeon in performing the operation cuts a triangular hole through the white of the eye and passes an instrument and removes the capsule containing the lens. It is not a painful operation and usually takes about ten minutes. A little cocaine is put in the eye and there is no pain afterwards. One has to lie on his back for forty-eight hours and stay in the hospital for twelve days. A surgeon will not operate on but one eye until a certain time has elapsed, and advises that the other eye be left as it is because if this should become affected there is danger of total blindness. After a short time, I was given a glass lens, which is worn like any other spectacle. I had mine made a bi-focal so that I do not have to change when I read, and thus I get along very well with but one eye.

I am seventy eight years old and am still a diligent reader of the newspapers and magazines and find life interesting and worth while.

(Note: Mr. Hardison removed from Geneva to Los Angeles in December, 1919.) ^[1]

From "Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties Indiana"

James H. HARDISON, a resident of Geneva for many years, is a veteran oil producer and operator, and has had an active experience in the various oil fields of the country beginning with those of Western Pennsylvania when petroleum was considered one of the new and astonishing products of the world.

Mr. Hardison has seen much of pioneering in different stages of his life. He was born in Kennebec County, Maine, February 5, 1841, a son of Ivory and Dorcas (Abbott) Hardison. When he was two years of ago his parents removed to Aroostook County, Maine, where he grew to manhood. Aroostook County was then a wild and desolate section,170 miles from the nearest railroad, filled with wild game and anyone living there became thoroughly imbued with the life of the forest and all the experience and craftsmanship which that meant. Mr. Hardison had a good common school education, and at the age of twenty started out to make his own way in the world. He worked in the sawmills in Maine three years, then going to Pennsylvania, where he soon drifted into the oil fields. He began drilling in 1865 and for fully half a century his interests and activities have identified him with the producing end of the oil business.

In 1876 Mr. Hardison married Mary E. Brooking. She is a native of Newfoundland, and her father was a ship captain and was lost at sea when Mrs. Hardison was a girl. Her family subsequently moved to Mercer, Pennsylvania, where she grew up. Mr. Hardison operated in the oil districts of Western Pennsylvania for some years and finally moved out to Kansas, where he lived about six years. Later he returned to Pennsylvania and became an oil operator in that field and in 1893 did his first work in the oil fields of Indiana, operating around Geneva. His home has been at Geneva since.

Mr. and Mrs. Hardison have two children. Bertha, a graduate of the Geneva public schools, is the wife of H. O. Butler, and they live in California. Wallace B., who is unmarried, lives at home with his parents and is manager of the Hartford Oil Company.

Mr. James H. Hardison is a charter member of Geneva Lodge No. 621, Free and Accepted Masons, and his son Wallace is a past master of that lodge. Both are charter members of the Order of Eastern Star Chapter. Mr. Hardison is a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, being afiiliated with the consistory at Fort Wayne. Politically he is a strong and convincing advocate of republican doctrines. He was an ardent advocate of Roosevelt and still believes in perhaps the most virile statesman in America. Mr. Hardison has servedas a member of the city council of Geneva. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since 1872, having joined that craft at St. Petersburg in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Later he was member of the lodge at Salina, Kansas, and for a time was lodge treasurer there.^[2]

1850 Census

Name: James Hardison, Age: 8, Birth Year: abt 1842, Birthplace: Maine, Home in 1850: Letter H Range 2, Aroostook, Maine, USA, Gender: Male, Family Number: 13, Household Members Name, Age: Joey (Ivory) Hardison 51, Dorcas Hardison 46, Oliver Hardison 21, Mary L Hardison 19, Martin Hardison 15, Ai Hardison 14, James Hardison 8, Harvey Hardison 5, Adi Hardison 4 ^[3]

1860 Census

James Hardison, Census 1860, Lyndon, Aroostook, Maine, United States, Age 19, Birth Year (Estimated) 1841, Birthplace Maine, Page 46

Household: Sex, Age, Birthplace: Ivory Hardison M 61 Maine, Dorcas Hardison F 56 Maine, Martin Hardison M 24 Maine, James Hardison M 19 Maine, Harvey Hardison M 16 Maine, Ida M Hardison F 13 Maine, Wallace Hardison M 9 Maine, Wm Dockindorff M 60 Maine ^[4]

1870 Census

James Hordston (Hardison) United States Census, 1870, Pennsylvania, United States, Age 30, Birth Year (Estimated) 1839-1840, Birthplace Maine, Occupation Oil Miner, Page Number 69^[5]

1880 Census

J. H. Harrison (Hardison), Age: 38, Birth Date: Abt 1842, Birthplace: Maine, Home in 1880: Bradford, McKean, Pennsylvania, USA, Street: Summer St, House Number: 75, Dwelling Number: 30, Married, Spouse's Name: Mary E. Harrison, Father's Birthplace: Maine, Mother's Birthplace: Maine, Occupation: Casing Puller. Household Members: Name, Age: J. H. Harrison 38, Mary E. Harrison 35, Bertha A. Harrison 3, Mary Brooking 60, Emma Brooking 24 ^[6]

1900 Census

James H Hardiston (Hardison) Census 1900, Wabash Township (west part) Geneva town, Adams, Indiana, United States, Age 58, Married, Years Married 24, Birth Date Feb 1842, Birthplace Maine, Marriage Year (Estimated) 1876, Father's Birthplace Maine, Mother's Birthplace Maine.

Household, Role, Sex, Age, Birthplace: James H Hardiston (Head) M 58 Maine, Mary E Hardiston (Wife) F 54 St Johns, Waltar B Hardiston (Son) M 15 Kansas, Edney Dean (Niece) F 19 New York, Zoa Shepnard (Niece) F 9 Kansas ^[7]

1910 Census

James H Hardison, Census 1910, Wabash, Adams, Indiana, United States, Age 69, Married, Birth Year (Estimated) 1841,Birthplace Maine, Father's Birthplace Maine, Mother's Birthplace Maine

Household: Role, Sex, Age, Birthplace: James H Hardison (Head) M 69 Maine, Mary E Hardison (Wife) F 67 Newfoundland, Wallace B Hardison (Son) M 24 Kansas, Zoa Shepperd (Niece) F 17 Kansas ^[8]

1920 Census

James H Hardison, Census 1920, Wabash, Adams, Indiana, United States, Age 78, Married, Birth Year (Estimated) 1842, Birthplace Maine, Father's Birthplace Maine, Mother's Birthplace Maine

Household: Role, Sex, Age, Birthplace: James H Hardison (Head) M 78 Maine, Mary Hardison (Wife) F 75 Newfoundland, Wallace B Hardison (Son) M 34 Kansas, Zoe Shepherd (Niece) F 29 Kansas, Mary Butler (Granddaughter) F 9 Oklahoma ^[9]

50th Wedding Anniversary

The Los Angeles Times, Thursday January 14, 1926

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hardison of Montebello, friends & neighbors in Indiana for many years of the late Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary next Sunday. The anniversary will be the occasion for a party at the Scott Adobe in Montebello, to which the 150 friends of the couple have been invited. Mr. Hardison is one of the oldest pioneers in the oil industry in this country, in 1865 having formed one of the first companies to drill in the Pennsylvania fields. His two brothers, Harvey and Wallace W. later organized with Lyman Stewart what is now the Union Oil Company. Mr. & Mrs. Hardison have 2 children, Wallace Hardison & Mrs. H. O. Butler of Montebello.^[10]

Kansas Historical Society

Death Notices of Members of Fraternal Orders

Surname: hardison, Given Name: james h, Page 1 of 1 showing 1 records of 1 total, starting on record 1: Name, Death Date, Member of Lodge (Location): Hardison, James H., 4 November 1929, IOOF Lodge No. 28 (Salina, Saline Co.)^[11]

LA Times Death Notice

The Los Angeles Times Wed, Nov. 6, 1929 page 20: Hardison, James H., at Montebello, aged 88 years, beloved husband of Mary E. Hardison and father of Mrs. H.O. Butler and Wallace B. Hardison. Funeral Service Thursday, November 7, at 2 p.m.. from the Morliz Funeral Home, 913 Whittier Boulevard, Montebello.^[12]

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1. ↑ OUR FOLKS AND YOUR FOLKS VOLUME OF FAMILY HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES INCLUDING THE COLLINS, HARDISON, MERRILL, TEAGUE AND OAK FAMILIES, AND EXTENDING OVER A PERIOD OF TWO CENTURIES By FLORENCE COLLINS PORTER and CLARA WILSON GRIES LOS ANGELES The FREDS. LANG COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1919
2. ↑ Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties Indiana, John W. Tyndal and O.E. Lesh, 1918 Vol 1 p886-887
3. ↑ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8054&h=9251167&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=HbI454&_phstart=successSource Year: 1850; Census Place: Letter H Range 2, Aroostook, Maine; Roll: M432_248; Page: 111B; Image: 212, Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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5. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ22-ZXL : 12 April 2016), James Hordston in household of C G Witeman, Pennsylvania, United States; citing p. 69, family 462, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,959.
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7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMBW-SB2 : accessed 25 October 2017), James H Hardiston, Wabash Township (west part) Geneva town, Adams, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 13, sheet 2B, family 44, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,357.
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9. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFQ8-S1Q : accessed 24 October 2017), James H Hardison, Wabash, Adams, Indiana, United States; citing ED 14, sheet 8A, line 1, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 420; FHL microfilm 1,820,420.
10. ↑ The Los Angeles Times, Thursday January 14, 1926
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12. ↑ The Los Angles Times Wed, Nov. 6, 1929 p 20.