Andrew Jackson Bryant (1831 - 1888)

Born 30 Oct 1831 in Effingham, Carroll County, New Hampshire

Died 11 May 1888 at age 56 in San Francisco, California

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Andrew Bryant is Notable.

Andrew Jackson Bryant, known as A.J. Bryant, (1831–1888) was famous as the seventeenth mayor of San Francisco, California, serving from December 1875 to December 1879.

As a young man, he sailed around the tip of South America to San Francisco, where he arrived in 1850 and went directly to the Gold Country of California.

After a "year's hard work," however, he returned to San Francisco "for medical treatment," and then went to Benicia, California, where in 1854–55 was the city marshal and in 1856 he was a deputy sheriff.

In 1856 the California Legislature met in Benicia, and when it disbanded, Bryant moved to Sacramento, the new state capital, where he opened a general merchandising business with George W. Chesley and George L. Bradley, which lasted four years.

He then "sold out, going into the wholesale liquor business" with a Mr. Morrison." He moved back to San Francisco and worked in such enterprises as an insurance agency and an express business.

Bryant was married twice, having six children by his first wife.

1. his oldest daughter later becoming the wife of Mayor William Russell Grace of New York City. (note: cannot find data to verify this)
2. In 1877 another daughter, Mary J., married George Avery.

His second marriage was in 1870.

A prominent insurance man and a sportsman, he drowned in the San Francisco Bay after falling from a ferryboat.

Burial: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 March 2019), memorial page for Andrew Jackson Bryant (30 Oct 1832–11 May 1888), Find A Grave Memorial no. 44469817, citing Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44469817

• Wikipedia profile: Andrew Jackson Bryant

• Nadeau, Remi A., City-Makers: The Men who Transformed Los Angeles from Village to Metropolis During the First Great Boom, 1868-76. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY 1948. pg 232, 234