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EUGENE GREMAUX
EUGENE GREMAUX, rancher,
Douglass Township, was born in Lower Canada, November 1, 1830, a son of Olivier
and Agatha (Jondron) Gremaux, natives of that province. The father died in
1883, aged eighty; the mother many years before, at about the age of forty. Grandfather
Joseph Gremaux died in Canada, aged ninety-four.
The subject of this sketch came to
California in 1855, and went to mining at Robert Creek, but with such poor
success that he gave up that line of business after a trial of two months. He
then came down into the Sacramento valley, and afterwards into this region, and
engaged in farm work. He spent five years on a place near Waterloo, and four on
what was called the Dodge ranch. In 1867 he bought the 142-acre ranch on which
he still resides, and on which his chief crop is wheat.
Mr. Gremaux was married December 16, 1866,
to Miss Orinda McLanahan, a native of Wisconsin, born February 27, 1849. Mrs.
Gremaux died in March, 1875, leaving a son and daughter, two other children
having died in infancy. The survivors are: Loveland Adolphus, born July 12,
1867, and Frances Isadora, born August 13, 1873.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 654. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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