Frederick LADD

  General Notes:

From Vermont Men, 1894 - Ladd, Charles Douglass,of San Francisco, Cal., son of Seneca and Mary S. (Varnum) Ladd, was born in Danville, Sept. 3, 1849. He was educated at the publfc schools of Danville during the years of his minority, and learned the blacksmith's and gunsmith's trades. In 1869 he went to California, and for several years worked as gunsmith and blacksmith, until in 1877 he established himself in business at San Francisco as a dealer in firearms and sporting goods. In 1881 he removed to his present large establishment at 529 Kearney street, where he still conducts the same business in connection with the fur business, which he has added during the last few years. Mr. Ladd is the owner of several schooners which are engaged principally in the fur trade. He is independent and liberal in regard to politics, and votes with the party having the best candidate for office; hence, he says, am both Democrat and Republican. Mr. Ladd married Mary S. Lyon of Woodstock, Conn.