- Allen B. and Maria Ganyard were witnesses at the wedding of Maria's twin sister, Mariam, to Samuel Upham Waldo on 7 Nov 1872 in Jonesville, Hillsdale County, MI. Mariam's marriage record indicates that the Waldos were residents of Jonesville at the time.
Allen B. and Maria Ganyard and their son Allen B. Ganyard Jr. moved to the West in 1876, where Allen Ganyard managed a series of hotels in California. An 1892 history of Fresno, Tulare and Kern Counties, CA, provides this biographical sketch of A. B. Ganyard, who at the time owned the Mint Saloon and Wine Rooms in Madera in neighboring Madera County:
"A.B. Ganyard, of Madera, was born in Jonesville, Hillsdale County, Michigan, in 1845. He improved his educational facilities in his native town, and passed his boyhood days at home on the old farm. In March, 1876, he started for the Pacific slope, and after passing one season with friends in Oregon he went to Eureka, Humboldt County, and secured the position of salesman and bookkeeper in the hardware store of W.H. Johnston, remaining one year. He then went to Port Kenyon, at the head waters of navigation on the Salt River, and there managed the hotel of J.G. Kenyon for eighteen months. This experience started him in the hotel business, and he then leased the Golden Eagle Hotel at Marysville, which he managed for two years; then came to Firebaugh, and was in the same business three years. In 1884 he went to Fresno and leased the old Morrow House, which he refitted and furnished, changed the name to the Southern Pacific, and in the two years there built up an extensive business. Early in 1887 he came to Madera, and March 16 of the same year entered into partnership with Jake Myer, in the grain commission business, and they then started the Mint Saloon and Wine Rooms.
"Mr. Ganyard was married at Jonesville, Michigan, in 1865, to Miss May [Mariah] Rose, a native of Canada, a lady of genial disposition and winning manners. After about twenty years of married life Mrs. Ganyard was afflicted with a malignant disease and died, amidst great suffering, in December 1888, mourned by a fond husband, their only child Allen, and a large circle of friends. Mr. Ganyard bought a residence on C. Street, which is occupied by his son, who was married December 13, 1890, to Miss Minnie Townsend. Mr. Ganyard also owns 180 acres in Tulare County, which he has improved in vines, trees and alfalfa. He was a charter member of Fresno Lodge, No. 188, K of P., and a member of Yosemite Lodge, No. 173, AOUW. They had a son, Allen Belden Ganyard b 4 May 1868 in MI."
Allen B. Ganyard remarried in about 1893. When the 1900 U.S. Census was taken, he and his wife of 7 years, Jessie Ganyard (b Aug 1870 in England) lived in San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA. Allen Ganyard was 55 (b Apr 1845 in MI) and was still in the hotel business.
Allen B. Ganyard died in Santa Clara County, CA, on 18 Jun 1924 at the age of 79. His spouse's initials, given on his death record extract, were J.M.
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