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Maria Hardenbergh (Hastings)
Birth: 1822
Death: 1-12-1902
Alternate Surname: Hardenberg
Biography
Maria Hastings Hardenbergh was the second wife of James Richmond Hardenbergh, who served as the Mayor of Sacramento in 1850 and again in 1853. Maria was born somewhere back east (her Find a Grave says New York,but a book about Hardenberg says Wisconsin), and it is unknown when she came to California. She and James married on April 23, 1863; James had divorced his first wife, Eliza Brush, in 1859. James died in 1885, and Maria died in Sacramento in 1902. It is unknown if they had any children.
In a letter from the 1870's, Hanson Alexander Risley mentions having met Mrs. Hardenbergh near Washington DC and says she had been kind to William Henry Seward and Olive Risley when they were in California.
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Maria Hastings Hardenbergh was the second wife of James Richmond Hardenbergh, who served as the Mayor of Sacramento in 1850 and again in 1853. Maria was born somewhere back east (her Find a Grave says New York,but a book about Hardenberg says Wisconsin), and it is unknown when she came to California. She and James married on April 23, 1863; James had divorced his first wife, Eliza Brush, in 1859. James died in 1885, and Maria died in Sacramento in 1902. It is unknown if they had any children.
In a letter from the 1870's, Hanson Alexander Risley mentions having met Mrs. Hardenbergh near Washington DC and says she had been kind to William Henry Seward and Olive Risley when they were in California.