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SERAPHIN MARCEAU
A continuous resident of San Joaquin
County for the past forty-seven years, Seraphin
Marceau has been a participant in the growth and development of the county
during that period. He was born on his
father’s farm in the rural district of Sainte Anne, near Quebec, Canada, on
March 25, 1855, a son of Christopher and Mary (Desonia)
Marceau of French descent, who settled in Canada in an early day. There were eight children in the family: Phillip; Louis; Onisim;
Napoleon; Seraphim, our subject; Adolphus; Mary and Etucan.
As a boy, Seraphin
Marceau attended the public school, and when he reached the age of fifteen
years he served an apprenticeship for three years learning the carpenter’s
trade. After completing his
apprenticeship he worked there for three years as a journeyman carpenter, and
in 1876 came to Stockton, California; he followed his trade and did contracting
and building in a small way in the vicinity of Waterloo, which occupied him
until 1878, when he engaged in the liquor business there; later when he removed
to Clements he went into the hotel business and continued there for eight
years, when he sold his business and located in Lockeford in 1890, where he has
been in business from that time to the present.
The marriage of Mr. Marceau occurred
at Clements, California, on February 23, 1886, and united him with Miss Allie
C. Fox, a native of Comanche, California, a daughter of James Fox, a grain
farmer who came to California in an early day and settled at Comanche, and
there Mrs. Marceau received her education. They are the parents of one son, Dan
V. Marceau. Politically Mr. Marceau is a
Democrat, and fraternally is a member of the Knights of Columbus of Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1540. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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