Sacramento County
Biographies
ALBERT HART
ALBERT
HART, superintendent of Sacramento city schools, was born in Barbadoes, West
Indies, May 18, 1830. His parents, Joseph and Hannah
Hart, were natives of England, who came to America in 1838 and went to
Cincinnati, and from there to New Orleans, and afterward returned to the West
Indies, where the father died. His mother returned to New Orleans. Mr. Hart
received his education in Cincinnati and New Orleans. When the gold excitement
in California attracted the attention of young men in nearly all parts of the
world, he came to the Pacific Coast via the Isthmus, arriving in San Francisco
in March, 1850. He engaged in mining in Placer County, and also in teaching,
being one of the earliest teachers in the State now engaged in educational
work. He taught from 1854 to 1857 at Yankee Jim’s, Iowa Hill, and Dutch Flat.
In 1861 he came to Sacramento and for several years was in the State Library.
He was the first librarian of the San Francisco Law Library, as well as the San
Francisco Free Public Library. He was appointed private secretary to Governor
Booth, and also served in the same capacity for Governors Pacheco and Perkins.
He held the office of United States Pension Agent under President Hayes, and
was appointed Superintendent of the money order department in the San Francisco
postoffice under General S. W. Backus. In the fall of 1889 he was elected to
his present position of superintendent of Sacramento city schools. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity; of the I. O. O. F.,
and of the Knights of Honor. In 1859 Mr. Hart married Miss Harriet N. Lafferty,
of Iowa, and they have six children, four sons and two daughters.
Transcribed by Vicky
Walker, 12/27/07.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 785-786.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Vicky Walker.