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James Rogers Garniss (San Francisco, California, insurance agent.)

b. 1827-11-30 d. 1902-07-23

San Francisco, California, insurance agent. New York native. Married to Julia Garniss. Insurance agent in San Francisco, California, in 1860. Insurance agent for the Nisbet & Garniss Mutual Insurance Agency in San Francisco in 1862. Employed as an insurance agent at the Columbia Fire Insurance Company in San Francisco in 1863. Employed as an insurance agent for the Guardian Life Insurance Company in San Francisco in 1865.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, District 4, p. 1221.

California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (1849-1980), CDPH, Sacramento, CA, San Francisco County Deaths, p. 159.

“Guardian Life Insurance Company of New York,” The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco), November 28, 1865.

Langley, Henry G. The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862 (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1862), 165, 624.

Langley, Henry G. The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing October, 1863 (San Francisco: Excelsior Steam Presses: Towne & Bacon, Job Printers, 1863), 156, 523.

“James Rogers Garniss (1827-1902),” Find A Grave, Memorial 149664770, accessed October 28, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149664770.

Citation

Garniss, James Rogers. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209861 (November 12, 2026).

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