San Joaquin County Biographies
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PIERRE LAHAIE
As a farmer, dairyman and vineyardist, Pierre Lahaie has been very successful and now leases a ranch on the Harshner Road. He was born at Botiscon, Canada, on April 25, 1866, a son of Gaseb and Margaret (La Favre) Lahaie. There were nine children in the family, namely: Henry, Anna, Alvin, Caroline, Laura, Albert, Pierre, our subject, Merle, and Isaac. The father was a farmer in Canada and when Pierre, our subject, was two years old the family moved to the Georgian Bay district in Ontario and lived there for nine years, when they removed to Bottineau County, N.D., and there the father bought a half-section of land. He lived to be sixty-eight years old and the mother was eighty-two, when she passed away.
Pierre Lahaie received his education in the grammar school and in vacation time helped his father on the home farm, where he remained until he was twenty-seven years old. He was married at Willow City, N.D., on November 19, 1890, to Miss Emelie Marchand, a native of the same vicinity in Canada where her husband was born, a daughter of Joseph and Elsie (Carrigan) Marchand, Mrs. Lahaie being the seventh in a family of nine children, as follows: Joseph, Josephine, Zepherin, Marie, Artimese, Armidos, Emelie, Antoinette, and Arthur. When Mrs. Lahaie was thirteen years old her family removed to Bottineau County, N.D., where her father homesteaded a half section of land. Her mother passed away at the age of thirty-nine and the father is still living at the age of eighty-four.
Shortly after his marriage, Mr. Lahaie removed to Duluth, Minn., where he worked for two years; he then returned to North Dakota, where he continued as a wage earner for a couple of years, then purchased a half-section of land and devoted his attention to raising grain and cattle for nine years; then he removed to Willow City and resided there for one year, when he came to Lodi, in 1904, where he purchased a fourteen acre ranch in the Pearly tract north of Woodbridge. He set it to vineyard and being unable to make of it a paying proposition, he turned it back to the original owners. He then rented 184 acres in the Tules and ran a dairy of twenty-five cows for three years; he then went northeast of Lodi on the Dry Creek Road one-half mile east of the Elliott school house and leased 480 acres of land on which he ran a dairy of seventy cows for three years; he then returned to the country north of Woodbridge on the Lincoln Highway, known as the Benedict ranch, consisting of 380 acres, part in vineyard, and remained there for one year; then he leased 180 acres eight miles west of Lodi and for the following two years conducted a dairy and alfalfa ranch; he then moved to the Neil McClintock ranch of eighty acres and rented it for three years. On January 4, 1921, he purchased forty-four acres of land, which was in vineyard. This property he sold in May, 1922, and came back to the dairy ranch on the Harshner Road. Mr. and Mrs. Lahaie are the parents of ten children: Ernestine, Mrs. Rossinni is deceased. Her husband also passed away in 1918 and they left one son, Walter, three years old, who lives with his grandfather. Eugene Lahaie married Hilda Perrin and they have two children, Genevieve and Wilbert. He enlisted in the U.S. Army, June, 1918, and was sent to San Diego, where he was assigned to an ammunition train and in February, 1919, was discharged as a private. Arthur Lahaie enlisted, at the age of nineteen, on March 20, 1917, and was sent to Camp Kearney in the field artillery; later he was transferred to the 135th Aero Squadron as mechanic and was sent to France where he became an officer's chauffeur and a messenger, besides serving as an interpreter, for being of French descent he understands and speaks the French language. He was in the front line trenches in the St. Mihiel drive and the Argonne offensive. Upon his return to the United States he served the balance of his enlistment at Fort Sill and there he was discharged in May, 1919. He has recently reenlisted and is now serving in the aviation department in the Philippines. Leo Lahaie married Miss Dorothy Bradley and has one daughter, Mary. The others are Pierre; Aldea, Mrs. Samuel Schenkenberger; Evelyn, Romeo, Edward and Velma. In politics Mr. Lahaie is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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