| OCR Text |
Show 282 John Tanner and His Family John Tanner + Albert Miles Tanner {- RICHARD ROBERT TANNER Richard Robert Tanner, son of Albert Miles and Lovina Bick Tanner, was born March 30, 1858, at San Juan Bautista, California. He was educated in the public schools and studied law at San Buenaventura, California. He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of California in 1894 and was in active practice until his death. He was a member of the firm Tanner, O'dell and Taft, more He was Deputy District Attorney of Santa Monica for thirteen years. March 1, 1883, he married Elizabeth J. Robinson, daughter of Judge Henry and Amelia Robinson. The couple had one child, Nora practicing in the city of Los Angeles. of Fallsbrook, California. Richard Robert Tanner was a Thirty-second (Ormsby) Mason, a at Santa Odd Fellow and Shriner, Monica, California. an an Chapter Twenty-Three Degree Elk. He died - Scottish Rite April 9,1931, Notes IJohn Tanner Family, p. 43. 2Martin Henry Tanner went on a mission for the Mormon church in 1844, but did not come West with the Mormons in 1846. He married in New York in 1853. 3Myron Tanner, Biography. 4Roberts, Documentary History, vol. 6,chapters 8 and 5Myron Tanner Biography. 16. GNathan's "Reminiscences." 7Eliza Partridge Lyman Journal, February 18, 1846. 8Ibid., February 20, 1846. He is mentioned a few other times in this journal. 9But there were many married men taken and their families were looked after by those who remained. l°The Battalion was discharged at Los Angeles July 16, 1847. llSome Battalion members came to Utah that year and went on to Winter Quar ters to their families. 12It is not known if Albert would have come to Utah in any case., but his re maining there during the gold rush was decisive. 13Myron Tanner Biography appears in the Appendix. HIt is known that he was not in partnership with Myron, Seth, Freeman, and the four oldest sons of Elizabeth. In fact neither Elizabeth nor any of Joseph the boys mention him again. he seems to have 15Tracing Albert has been a difficult task for the author - - very few descendants. 16Juanita Brooks, ed., On 'he Mormon Frontiers The 1844-1861 (Salt Lake City, 1964), p. 494. Dia1'Y of Hosea Stout, |
