Was born in lower Canada
on December 6, 1834, where he received his education and resided until
twenty two years old. In 1856 he emigrated to California, via Nicaragua,
arriving in San Francisco on June 6th of that year. After clerking in a
hotel in San Francisco for a few months, he came to this county, and located
at Bodega where he worked for a short time on a ranch, then opened a
boarding-house which business he followed until 1859. He then came to
Bloomfield and embarked in the business of hotel-keeping, where he at
present resides. Married on December 19, 1859, Miss Helena Caseres. She was
born in Sonoma in June, 1840, and died August 15, 1874. The children by this
marriage are as follows: Eugene Oliver, born May 20, 1866; Louis Alfred,
born August 22, 1869; Amelia, died May 31, 1877; Isabella Louise, died when
two and one-half years old. Mr. Le Febvre married on October 23, 1878,
Isabella, late wife of D. H. Jewell. She was born in New York, April 11,
1850. Mrs. Le Febvre's children by first marriage are: Emma M. Jewell, born
in 1867; Jesse E., born in 1868; Isaac R., born in 1870.
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal., Alley, Bowen &
Co., San Francisco, 1880, pp. 480-481.
Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007.
Losson Ross, whose
portrait appears in this work, was born in Floyd County, Indiana, July 22,
1828. When quite young he, with his parents, moved to Harrison County,
Indiana, where he received his education. In 1849, he went to Louisiana,
where he remained until the Spring of 1850, when he moved, with his parents,
to Van Buren County, Iowa, and there joined a party, on April 5th, and
started across the plains for California, arriving at Placerville September
14, 1850, and carried on mining for two years, after which he was engaged
with Bralley, Burdan & Co., which was organized for the purpose of conveying
water from the Cosumnes River into the dry diggings, to facilitate mining.
Here he was engaged for about three years, when he opened up a general
merchandise store in Coon Hollow, which business he followed two years. In
February, 1857, he came to this county and settled in his present estate,
consisting of three hundred acres, where he has since resided. On September
4, 1853, he married, on Clear Creek, El Dorado County, Miss Sydna Weeks. She
was born May 15, 1833, a native of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. By this
union they have seven children: William D., born in Coon Hollow, El Dorado
County, June 30, 1854; Frank, born June 7, 1857; Kemp, August 28, 1859;
Irvin, December 3, 1861; George, January 10, 1866; Benjamin, December 13,
1868; Anna Ella, November 21, 1875.
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley,
Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 1880, p.481.
Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007.
Was born in the North of Ireland in 1820,
where he resided for some years, coming to America in early manhood, and
settled in New York State, and there embarked in farming and resided till
1854, when, on March 4th of that year, he, with his young bride, sailed from
New York city on the steamer "Northern Light," to Nicaragua, where they took
the steamer "Sierra Nevada," and arrived at San Francisco on April 2d. They
immediately proceeded to this county, and settled on the ranch which his
widow now owns, consisting of nearly five hundred acres. Here Mr. Sharon
resided up to the time of his death, which occurred May 26, 1870. Married
Catharine T. Donahue, of New York City, on February 21, 1854, who was born
March 13, 1830. By this union there are two children: Edward M., born April
22, 1855, and Margaretta R., born March 17, 1860. To Mrs. Sharon and her
children belong great credit for the business-like way the farm has been
conducted since her husband's death.
Source: "History of Sonoma County, Cal.," Alley,
Bowen & Co., San Francisco, 1880, p. 481.
Transcribed and submitted by Sally Kaleta, July, 2007.