Chapter Ten
John8 Henry Saunders
1880–1940
San Fransicso, California to Sydney, Australia
Related Family Names in this chapter:
Barnitz - Borden - Brannan - Burnett - Chinn
Douglass - Osborne -
Pendegast - Smoot - Snowdon
JOHN8 HENRY SAUNDERS was born in San Francisco on 4 August 1880
Like his father before him he was the youngest child in the family, having
two elder brothers. He was schooled in San Francisco and trained as an
attorney, but did not seem to ever practice law. Instead he embarked on a
variety of entrepreneurial adventures, most of which ended in failure.
In 1905 he married Lillian Frances Chinn. They were living in San Francisco
during the Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The couple divorced in 1925
and John moved to Sydney, Australia where he remarried. In Sydney his
business as a Bloodstock
Insurance broker made him very wealthy. Unfortunately, like so many
others, he was financially ruined by the Great Depression. Beset with debts and
given to excessive drinking, he died in 1940 aged 59.
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