"James C. Lamon, a native of Virginia, Died May 22, 1875, Aged 58 yrs, J. Conway"
First permanent Euro-American settler of Yosemite. Set up residence in 1862 & cultivated a small farm & two orchards until his death in 1875 when he died of pneumonia.
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Note:"The First Cabin Built in Yosemite" Photographed in 1861. In June, 1859, James Chenowith Lamon arrived in Yosemite Valley, located and preempted 160 acres, in three detached portions, in the upper end of the Valley. He built the first log cabin in Yosemite, locating on the south side of the Valley. The Sacramento Record-Union, May 24, 1875, said: "The cabin is of rough logs, dirt floor and no windows, and contains a granite fire-place, a cot, table, cupboard, bearskins etc." Mr. Lamon cultivated a garden of vegetables and small fruits and planted two large orchards. John Muir wrote: "He was a fine, erect, whole-souled man, between six and seven feet high, with a broad open face, bland and guileles as his pet oxen . . . many there be, myself among the number, who can testify to his simple unostentatious kindness that found expression in a thousand small deeds." From John Barnard's scrapbook about the death of James Lamon. It was dated May 24, 1875. "Friends and strangers joined in the procession which followed his remains to their final earthly rest. Under the branches of a gnarled old oak where the shadow of the cliffs that bound the great Yo Semite cataract at evening spreads its sombre pall, we made a grave for our old friend Lamon. The gray domes, rugged cliffs, and cloud-wreathed spires of a temple grander than any reared by human hands, stand like grim sentinels to guard the walls of his burial ground, and the deep toned music of the surging fall thunders a requiem forever over the mortal remains of that noblest work of God, an honest man."
Added by: Gary Mumper
First permanent Euro-American settler of Yosemite. Set up residence in 1862 & cultivated a small farm & two orchards until his death in 1875 when he died of pneumonia.
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Note:"The First Cabin Built in Yosemite" Photographed in 1861. In June, 1859, James Chenowith Lamon arrived in Yosemite Valley, located and preempted 160 acres, in three detached portions, in the upper end of the Valley. He built the first log cabin in Yosemite, locating on the south side of the Valley. The Sacramento Record-Union, May 24, 1875, said: "The cabin is of rough logs, dirt floor and no windows, and contains a granite fire-place, a cot, table, cupboard, bearskins etc." Mr. Lamon cultivated a garden of vegetables and small fruits and planted two large orchards. John Muir wrote: "He was a fine, erect, whole-souled man, between six and seven feet high, with a broad open face, bland and guileles as his pet oxen . . . many there be, myself among the number, who can testify to his simple unostentatious kindness that found expression in a thousand small deeds." From John Barnard's scrapbook about the death of James Lamon. It was dated May 24, 1875. "Friends and strangers joined in the procession which followed his remains to their final earthly rest. Under the branches of a gnarled old oak where the shadow of the cliffs that bound the great Yo Semite cataract at evening spreads its sombre pall, we made a grave for our old friend Lamon. The gray domes, rugged cliffs, and cloud-wreathed spires of a temple grander than any reared by human hands, stand like grim sentinels to guard the walls of his burial ground, and the deep toned music of the surging fall thunders a requiem forever over the mortal remains of that noblest work of God, an honest man."
Added by: Gary Mumper
"James C. Lamon, a native of Virginia, Died May 22, 1875, Aged 58 yrs, J. Conway"
First permanent Euro-American settler of Yosemite. Set up residence in 1862 & cultivated a small farm & two orchards until his death in 1875 when he died of pneumonia.
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Note:"The First Cabin Built in Yosemite" Photographed in 1861. In June, 1859, James Chenowith Lamon arrived in Yosemite Valley, located and preempted 160 acres, in three detached portions, in the upper end of the Valley. He built the first log cabin in Yosemite, locating on the south side of the Valley. The Sacramento Record-Union, May 24, 1875, said: "The cabin is of rough logs, dirt floor and no windows, and contains a granite fire-place, a cot, table, cupboard, bearskins etc." Mr. Lamon cultivated a garden of vegetables and small fruits and planted two large orchards. John Muir wrote: "He was a fine, erect, whole-souled man, between six and seven feet high, with a broad open face, bland and guileles as his pet oxen . . . many there be, myself among the number, who can testify to his simple unostentatious kindness that found expression in a thousand small deeds." From John Barnard's scrapbook about the death of James Lamon. It was dated May 24, 1875. "Friends and strangers joined in the procession which followed his remains to their final earthly rest. Under the branches of a gnarled old oak where the shadow of the cliffs that bound the great Yo Semite cataract at evening spreads its sombre pall, we made a grave for our old friend Lamon. The gray domes, rugged cliffs, and cloud-wreathed spires of a temple grander than any reared by human hands, stand like grim sentinels to guard the walls of his burial ground, and the deep toned music of the surging fall thunders a requiem forever over the mortal remains of that noblest work of God, an honest man."
Added by: Gary Mumper
First permanent Euro-American settler of Yosemite. Set up residence in 1862 & cultivated a small farm & two orchards until his death in 1875 when he died of pneumonia.
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Note:"The First Cabin Built in Yosemite" Photographed in 1861. In June, 1859, James Chenowith Lamon arrived in Yosemite Valley, located and preempted 160 acres, in three detached portions, in the upper end of the Valley. He built the first log cabin in Yosemite, locating on the south side of the Valley. The Sacramento Record-Union, May 24, 1875, said: "The cabin is of rough logs, dirt floor and no windows, and contains a granite fire-place, a cot, table, cupboard, bearskins etc." Mr. Lamon cultivated a garden of vegetables and small fruits and planted two large orchards. John Muir wrote: "He was a fine, erect, whole-souled man, between six and seven feet high, with a broad open face, bland and guileles as his pet oxen . . . many there be, myself among the number, who can testify to his simple unostentatious kindness that found expression in a thousand small deeds." From John Barnard's scrapbook about the death of James Lamon. It was dated May 24, 1875. "Friends and strangers joined in the procession which followed his remains to their final earthly rest. Under the branches of a gnarled old oak where the shadow of the cliffs that bound the great Yo Semite cataract at evening spreads its sombre pall, we made a grave for our old friend Lamon. The gray domes, rugged cliffs, and cloud-wreathed spires of a temple grander than any reared by human hands, stand like grim sentinels to guard the walls of his burial ground, and the deep toned music of the surging fall thunders a requiem forever over the mortal remains of that noblest work of God, an honest man."
Added by: Gary Mumper
