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Benjamin Franklin Hardin

Full Name: Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Hardin
Birth date: January 25, 1803
Death date: April 20, 1878

Terms of Service

  • House, 7th (1) Legislature
    11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
(1) Democrat. Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Other Resources

  • Census of 1850 - Franklin Hardin, Liberty, Liberty County, age 48, born circa 1802 in Georgia, surveyor, in household with Cynthia Hardin. FamilySearch . 1850
  • Col. Franklin Hardin, birth date 1/25/1803 in Franklin County, Georgia; death date 4/20/1878 in Liberty, Texas; burial in Liberty City Cemetery, Liberty, Liberty County. Includes historical marker photo. Find a Grave .
  • HARDIN, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1803–1878). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • 1st Lieutenant of Infantry, Lieutenant, Captain (Republic of Texas, 1836). Colonel, 2nd Brigade of Texas Militia (1842-1843). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Biographical sketch, family history, and portrait of Frank Hardin, The Hardins of Liberty, pp. 413-416. Frank Hardin, born 1/25/1803 in Franklin County, Georgia; elected in 1857 as representative of Liberty County to the 7th Legislature; died 4/20/1878 in Liberty. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
  • Obituary, Capt. Frank Hardin, The Galveston Daily News, 4/28/1878, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "An old pioneer and veteran of the Texas revolution, a hero of San Jacinto, and of the Anahuac fight between the colonists and the Mexican garrison under Bradburn . . . " Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • Historical marker, Franklin Hardin, Liberty, Liberty County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
  • Biographical sketch, Franklin Hardin, pp. 369-370. The Heroes of San Jacinto 1932.

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