Butte County
Biographies
EDWARD J. LAUTERIO
EDWARD J. LAUTERIO.—An efficient
workman and a well-known and successful painting and decorating contractor,
Edward J. Lauterio, of Chico, was born at Tres Pinos, San Benito County,
October 7, 1864, a son of Edward Lauterio,
who was born in France and came to California and engaged in ranching in San
Benito County. The father met an accidental death in 1865. His wife was Lulu
Quinn, a native of Mexico, who died at Hollister; she was the mother of two
children, the younger of whom was our subject.
When a child of six, Edward J. came north
to Yolo County and made his home with an uncle, Charles St. Louis, at Cacheville, now Yolo. Here he was reared and attended the
public schools until he was sixteen, when he came to Glenn County, and was
employed on the ranch of Antwine St. Louis for a
few years. He then apprenticed himself to Peter Williams to learn the trade of
carriage-painter, in his shop at Willows, and after eight years felt qualified
to strike out on his own account. Going to Red Bluff, he took contracts for
painting and decorating for a year, then went to Orland, and later worked
through Glenn and Tehama Counties, until 1901, when he settled in Butte County.
The first two years of his residence here he worked at Chico and at Oroville,
but since that time he has confined his operations to Chico and vicinity, where
he has built up a good trade and given good satisfaction to his many patrons,
one job always bringing him another. Some of the finest business blocks and
residences show the result of his artistic handiwork.
Mr. Lauterio was
married at Orland to Miss Marie O’Hair, born at Charles City, Iowa, a daughter
of John and Catherine (Kinney) O’Hair, natives of Glasgow, Scotland, and Ann
Arbor, Mich., respectively. John O’Hair was born in 1848, a son of another
John, who brought his family to New York where he engaged in mercantile
pursuits until he moved to Floyd County, Iowa, where he began farming. It was
here that their children, seven in number, were reared and educated.
Mrs. O’Hair resides in Palo Alto and there are six of her children living.
John O’Hair enlisted and served in Company K, Seventh Iowa Cavalry, and campaigned
after the Indians in the bad lands. In 1869 he arrived
in California and, with his brothers, under the name of O’Hair Brothers,
engaged in ranching on a large scale in what is now Glenn County, on Stony
Creek. When they dissolved, John went to San Francisco and later to Palo Alto,
where he died. Mrs. Lauterio was reared and
educated in Glenn County. Mr. and Mrs. Lauterio
have four children: Carmelita, who is Mrs. Hensley, of Chico;
Edward F., who is assisting his father; and Helen and Marcella, who are
both in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, in San Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. Lauterio
are members of St. John’s Catholic Church of Chico, where Mr. Lauterio belongs to the Elks Lodge. They are highly
respected and have a wide circle of friends in Butte County.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
04 November 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1294, Historic Record Co, Los
Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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