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PIERRE LAHAIE
As a farmer, dairyman and
vineyardist, Pierre Lahaie has been very successful and now leases a ranch on
the Harshner Road. He was born at Botiscon, Canada, on April 25, 1866 a son of Gaseb and Margaret (La Favre) Lahaie. There were nine children in the family,
namely: Henry, Anna, Alvin, Caroline,
Laura, Albert, Pierre, our subject, Merle and Isaac. The father was a farmer in
Canada and when Pierre, our subject, was two years old the family moved to the
Georgian Bay district in Ontario and lived there for nine years, when they
removed to Bottineau County, North Dakota, and there the father bought a
half-section of land. He lived to be
sixty-eight years old and the mother was eighty-two when she passed away.
Pierre Lahaie received his education
in the grammar school and in vacation time helped his father on the home farm,
where he remained until he was twenty-seven years old. He was married at Willow City, North Dakota,
on November 19, 1890 to Miss Emelie Marchand, a native of the same vicinity in Canada where her
husband was born, a daughter of Joseph and Elsie (Carrigan)
Marchand; Mrs. Lahaie being the seventh in a family
of nine children, as follows: Joseph,
Josephine, Zepherin, Marie, Artimese,
Armidos, Emelie, Antoinette and Arthur. When Mrs. Lahaie was thirteen years old her
family removed to Bottineau County, North Dakota, where her father homesteaded
a half section of land. Her mother
passed away at the age of thirty-nine and the father is still living at the age
of eighty-four.
Shortly after his marriage, Mr.
Lahaie removed to Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked for two years; he then
returned to North Dakota, where he continued as a wage earner for a couple of
years, then purchased a half-section of land and devoted his attention to
raising grain and cattle for nine years; then he removed to Willow City and
resided there for one year, when he came to Lodi in 1904, where he purchased a
fourteen acre ranch in the Pearly tract north of Woodbridge. He set it to vineyard and being unable to
make it a paying proposition, he turned it back to the original owners. He then rented 184 acres in the Tules and ran
a dairy of twenty-five cows for three years; he then went northeast of Lodi on
the Dry Creek Road one-half mile east of the Elliott school house and leased
480 acres of land on which he ran a dairy of seventy cows for three years; he
then returned to the country north of Woodbridge on the Lincoln Highway, known
as the Benedict ranch, consisting of 380 acres, part in vineyard, and remained
there for one year; then he leased 180 acres eight miles west of Lodi and for
the following two years conducted a dairy and alfalfa ranch; he then moved to
the Neil McClintock ranch of eighty acres and rented it for three years. On January 4, 1921 he purchased forty-four
acres of land, which was in vineyard.
This property he sold in May, 1922 and came back to the dairy ranch on
the Harshner Road. Mr. and Mrs. Lahaie
are the parents of ten children:
Ernestine, Mrs. Rossinni, is deceased. Her husband also passed away in 1918 and they
left one son, Walter, three years old, who lives with his grandfather. Eugene Lahaie married Hilda Perrin and they have
two children, Genevieve and Wilbert. He
enlisted in the U. S. Army in June, 1918 and was sent to San Diego, where he
was assigned to an ammunition train and in February, 1919 was discharged as a
private. Arthur Lahaie enlisted at the
age of nineteen, on March 20, 1917 and was sent to Camp Kearney in the field
artillery; later he was transferred to the 135th Aero Squadron as a
mechanic and was sent to France where he became an officer’s chauffeur and a
messenger, besides serving as an interpreter, for being of French descent he
understands and speaks the French language.
He was in the frontline trenches in the St. Mihiel drive and the Argonne
offensive. Upon his return to the United
States he served the balance of his enlistment at Fort Sill and there he was
discharged in May, 1919. He has recently
reenlisted and is now serving in the aviation department in the
Philippines. Leo Lahaie married Miss
Dorothy Bradley and has one daughter, Mary.
The others are Pierre; Aldea, Mrs. Samuel Schenkenberger; Evelyn, Romeo, Edward and Velma. In politics Mr. Lahaie is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1619-1620. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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