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My very grateful thanks to Bea Campbell for an earlier posting that has now prompted me to ask or pose questions for my US family.
Reuben Rickard, one of the pioneer mining engineers of California and Nevada, was born 1854 St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. • 'Rubican' is shown as name on 1861 census. It appears as though after 1861 he may have travelled to France where his son Thomas was born.
Thomas Rickard was born in France in 1869 and graduated from the University of California in 1887. He lived in Nevada, practising his profession for a year after leaving college, and then returned to San Francisco, where he took an interest in the firm of Parke, Lacey & Company, sellers of mining machinery. In 1901 he joined J.O. Harron and Alex McCone in buying out the older firm, the name being changed to Harron, Rickard & McCone. He was vice-president of this concern at the time of his death. Mr. Rickard was a man of wide interests, but found time to be active in public affairs, having served as mayor of Berleley, as member of the Chamber of Commerce, and as trustee of the California Institute for the Deaf and Blind.
I was wondering if there is anyone in the US and in particular California or Nevada who are decendants of Rubin and Thomas and would like to exchange data.
Regards
Peter Rickard
Melbourne Australia
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