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Note: 1870 census New York Ward 12 District 10, NY Co., NY G. W. Landon age 38 occupation Lumber Merchant value of real estate 80,000 value of personel estate 8,000 Clara age 29 Howard age 11 Horace age 9 Era (?) female age 5 Frank age 2 Bridget Wall age 30 Domestic bp Ireland Bridget Shay age 35 Domestic bp Ireland 1876 lived registered to vote in San Francisco 1900 census San Francisco, CA Gardner Landon April 1832 age 68 number of years married 48 (i think, could be 9) bp NY Occ: RR clerk Clara E. May 1843 age 57 no years married 40 had 2 of 2 children bp NY dad's bp at Sea (Fr) Mom's bp St Thomas (Fr) Elevya May 1872 age 28 came to california sometime in the late 1870s brought an ugly painting by andrew melrose with him from new york. always lived with his son Francis. dick never heard about gardner's eldest son Howard. there must have been some sort of falling out. he did know about Horace, Dick and Jody visited them in San Francisco several times in the early 1940s. They visited them in the mid afternoon, and foud it extreamly funny that they already had the table laid for the next morning's breakfast and here it was so early. Now as they are in their 80s and set out the table for next morning's breakfast (at the extrealy late hour of 7 pm, they laugh and tell each other they are turning into Uncle Horace and Aunt Margie) a note about harlem: Harlem was "a synonym for elegant living through a good part of the nineteenth century As late as 1820, the community had only 91 families, one church, one school, and one library (it wasn't until 1904 that it became a mecca for african american settlers)
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