San Joaquin County
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MARION DE VRIES
MARION DE VRIES, an attorney
of Stockton, was born in this county, August 15, 1865, a son of W. H. and
Cornelia (Crowe) De Vries. The mother, a native of
Virginia, died September 28, 1866. The father, born in Maryland in 1834, came
to California in 1852, and followed the butchering business for ten or twelve
years, running shops at different points in this and Calaveras counties. At an
early period in his career he took up 160 acres, afterward increased by
purchase until he became the owner of 760 acres, which he still holds in 1890.
Was educated fairly well, and was elected a Justice of the Peace in this
county. Grandfather Henry De Vries, also a native of
Maryland, lived to be over seventy, and his father, also named Henry, died at
about the same age. This Henry was the original emigrant who settled in
Maryland, and both Henrys were farmers or planters in that State, the
grandfather being also a carpenter. Grandmother Mary J. Crowe died in this
county in 1868, aged sixty-four years
M. De Vries, the subject of this sketch, received a regular collegiate course at San Joaquin Valley College, Woodbridge, California, and studied law in the University of Michigan, and was admitted to the bar in that State, June 13, 1886, and in this State July 2, 1886. Resuming his studies in the same university he was graduated at that institution June 28, 1887. Returning to Stockton he entered on the practice of his profession, being associated for some time with John B. Hall, and formed a partnership with W. B. Nutter, August 3, 1889, under the style of Nutter & De Vries.
Mr. De Vries is a member of Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N. S. G. W.; of Woodbridge Lodge, No. 131, F. & A. M.; of Washtenaw Lodge, No. 9, I. O. O. F., at Ann Arbor, Michigan; of Nemo Lodge, No. 161, K. of P. of Stockton, and of Homo Lodge, No. 50, O. E. S., of Stockton.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 420-421. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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