Santa Clara Biography
Francois Tremoureanx
Born in Saint-Nazaire, France, July 12 1840. At the age of nine years he left home and followed the sea until he came to California in 1859, and has naturally seen a great deal of the world. In the last-named year he came to Santa Clara county, and after working for wages on a farm was employed in a store in San Jose. In 1861-2 he was engaged in the charcoal business, as well as other matters, until 1865, when he purchased his present mountain farm of nine hundred acres, adapted for stock-raising. Married, December 11, 1871, Arabella Grant, May, 1878, by whom there are: Francois M. born December 29,1872; Leonard J., born March 6,1874. Married, secondly, September 22,1878, Mrs. Emma Webster, and has: Albert C., born June 9,1880; Bertha A. Webster, born January 28,1878; a daughter by a former marriage.
History of Santa Clara County, California,: San Francisco, Cal.: Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers, 1881
Transcribed by Julie Appletoft, October, 2007 Page 560
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