Butte County
Biographies
ANDREW JACKSON LEMMON
A native son, who has spent the better part of his life in Butte County, is A. J. Lemmon, now a resident of Rackerby, where he is serving as the efficient postmaster. He was born in San Francisco, January 8, 1855, a son of William and Jane (Cassidy) Lemmon, the former a native of Philadelphia, and a steam engineer, who came to California in 1852 and was engaged in placer-mining at Forbestown several years. The latter was a native of Ireland and came to California when she was a young girl and here was married to Mr. Lemmon. She died at about sixty years of age. William Lemmon was shot and killed in 1895 at Forbestown and was about seventy years old.
A. J. Lemmon was the oldest of a family of five children and was educated in the public schools of Butte County. When he decided to marry, he chose as his bride, Miss Julia Russell, a native of Butte County and a daughter of Albert P. and Rosine (Morgan) Russell-Day, pioneers of 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon have had five children born to them: Edith, a teacher at Modesto; Annie, an assistant to her father at Rackerby; Mamie, married Ernest Wyman and lives at Colusa; Harry, has heard his country’s call and volunteered his services to “make the world safe for democracy” and is in the United States Navy and assigned to duty aboard the McDougal; and Andrew, is with the United States Expeditionary Forces in France.
From 1902 until 1916, Mr. Lemmon conducted a general merchandise store in Rackerby, where he owns twelve acres of land, besides which he bought, in 1896, ninety acres in Evansville precinct, Butte County, which he has set to peaches and figs. He possesses excellent business judgment, is a man of true worth, and both he and his good wife are highly esteemed by a large circle of friends in Butte County. Mr. Lemmon is a member of the Owl Lodge at Challenge; and he has served as a trustee of the Rackerby school district for about nine years.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1225, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Joyce Rugeroni.
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Biographies