Contra Costa County
Biographies
JESSE LAWRENCE
JESSE LAWRENCE. A business man of Danville, Jesse
Lawrence is engaged as a butcher in this place and caters to a large and
lucrative custom, both in the wholesale and retail trade. He was born in
Portugal, September 24, 1836, and was reared to young manhood in his
native land. At the age of twenty-two years he became a sailor on a United
States vessel, making his first trip to Africa, after which he sailed the seas
for four years. He then went to Boston and made a coast trip, after which he
came to California, landing at San Francisco in the spring of 1861. In the
following fall he went to Placer county and engaged in
mining, remaining so occupied in the vicinity of Newcastle for three years. For
the following four years he followed the same occupation in Idaho, when he
returned to San Francisco and there married Lena Freitas.
They located in Halfmoon Bay, San Mateo county, and built a home and carried on agricultural
pursuits. He also worked at various other employments until he engaged in the
butcher business, for sixteen years thereafter continuing this occupation in Halfmoon Bay, when he sold out and went to Haywards,
Alameda county, and followed the same line for two and
a half years. Locating then in Danville, Contra Costa county,
he bought a home and built a slaughter house and market, fitted with coolers
and every modern method for a successful prosecution of his business.
To Mr. Lawrence and his wife were born the following
children: Fred, a butcher; Louise, the wife of J. L. Dillon; Lizzie;
Rose, the wife of George Womersley; Mamie, the wife
of Henry Wilcox; Joseph, a butcher, who married Pearl Stow; Addie; Harry, a
butcher; Lester, also a butcher. In his fraternal relations Mr. Lawrence
is a member of Haywards Lodge No. 226, F. & A. M.,
of San Mateo, his daughter Lizzie being a member of the Eastern Star, and son,
Fred, a Mason.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 03 July 2016.
ญญญญSource: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Page
1235. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
ฉ 2016 Marie Hassard.
Contra Costa County Biographies