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LAMARTINE CAVAIGNAC TRENT
TRENT, LAMARTINE CAVAIGNAC, Engineer
& Mfr., Los Angeles, Cal., born, London, Eng.,
Dec. 13, 1848, son of Edwin and Augusta S. (Luckett) Trent. Married Mary De Lome
MacLeod at Boulder, Colo., June 5, 1888. Children, Inez V., Lelia De Lome, Helen,
Walter Edwin, Florence,
Evelyn and Lamartine Cavaignac, Jr. (dec.).
Attended
private schools, London; sailed for U. S., 1860, locating New Haven, Conn.;
went to sea 3 years. Returned to U. S., 1864, enlisted in Co.
F., 47th N. Y. Vol., Civil War.
Participated in first and second battle of Fort Fisher,
N. C. At close of 1865, entered employ
of Delamater Iron Works, N. Y., as apprentice.
Appointed, 1870, foreman Northern Pacific R. R. shops, Brainerd,
Minn.; 1872, Engineer, Clark Mine, Copper
Harbor, Mich.; 1876, aided in perfecting Frue Vanning Machine and introduction
same in U. S.. and foreign countries; 1885, mining advisor to Japanese
Government; appointed Western Mgr. and later elected Director English
corporation of Fraser & Chalmers, Chicago; 1894, organized L. C. Trent
& Co., Engineers, Salt Lake City; 1898 sold out and went to England, thence
to Australia as Mgr. North Mt. Lyell Mine, owned by English syndicate; 1903,
went to San Francisco, Cal., purchasing Dairy Farm Mine, which he later sold to
Guggenheim interests. Engaged in general
engineering until 1907, when he moved to Los
Angeles, Cal. Organized L. C. Trent Engineering Co. for
manufacture of machinery which he invented.
Member, Am. Inst. of Mining Engineers.
Clubs-Union League, San Francisco; sierra
Madre, Los Angeles; Alta, Salt Lake City.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on 9 December
2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 871,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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