JABEZ H. La RUE The ancestors of the La Rue family, for years prominently engaged in viticulture and agriculture in Fresno County, were from France, where they were Huguenots in religious faith.
Three brothers, William, Isaac, and Jacob, came to America at an early date.
Jacob La Rue was the progenitor of the family now located in Fresno County. He became an early resident of Kentucky.
William H. La Rue, the grandfather of Jabez, is said to have owned a mill where Abraham Lincoln was born. The father of the subject of this sketch was Jacob H. La Rue, a native of Hodgenville, La Rue County, Ky., where he was born in 1799.
He moved his family to Missouri in 1838, settling in Lewis County, where he engaged in farming until 1884, when he migrated to California, where he passed away at Sacramento, having attained the advanced age of eighty-five years.
His son, Jabez H. La Rue. was born in Elizabethtown, Ky., on February 16, 1833. He was but a small boy when his father moved to Missouri and it was there under primitive conditions that the young lad received his education. His early life was spent on his father's farm until he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself.
Jabez H. La Rue was united in marriage first with 'Margaret Haycraft, a native of Kentucky. This union was blessed with three sons and one daughter: Hugh William, whose sketch appears upon another page of this history ; Sarah C, now deceased ; Edwin H. ; and .Samuel Robert, a review of whose career will be found upon another page of this book.
The second marriage of Jabez H. La Rue occurred in 1891. when he was united with Helen H. Christie, a native of Winchester, the ceremony being solemnized in Missouri.
Jabez H. LaRue made his first trip to the Golden State in 1863, when he drove a team of mules across the plains, and after remaining two years in California he returned to his farm in Missouri. In 1886, he made another trip to California, and in the fall of the following year he was bereft of his wife's companionship through her passing to the Great Beyond. Upon his arrival in California, Mr. La Rue settled in the Malaga District, Fresno County, and purchased forty acres which he planted to grapes. As he prospered he added to his original acreage until he possessed 120 acres: thirty-three acres devoted to grapes and the balance of the land was used for general farming.
He passed away in September. 1917, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years. He was a man of high character and greatly esteemed in his community where he had resided for so many years. Fraternally he was a prominent Mason and was a member of the Baptist Church.
Three brothers, William, Isaac, and Jacob, came to America at an early date.
Jacob La Rue was the progenitor of the family now located in Fresno County. He became an early resident of Kentucky.
William H. La Rue, the grandfather of Jabez, is said to have owned a mill where Abraham Lincoln was born. The father of the subject of this sketch was Jacob H. La Rue, a native of Hodgenville, La Rue County, Ky., where he was born in 1799.
He moved his family to Missouri in 1838, settling in Lewis County, where he engaged in farming until 1884, when he migrated to California, where he passed away at Sacramento, having attained the advanced age of eighty-five years.
His son, Jabez H. La Rue. was born in Elizabethtown, Ky., on February 16, 1833. He was but a small boy when his father moved to Missouri and it was there under primitive conditions that the young lad received his education. His early life was spent on his father's farm until he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself.
Jabez H. La Rue was united in marriage first with 'Margaret Haycraft, a native of Kentucky. This union was blessed with three sons and one daughter: Hugh William, whose sketch appears upon another page of this history ; Sarah C, now deceased ; Edwin H. ; and .Samuel Robert, a review of whose career will be found upon another page of this book.
The second marriage of Jabez H. La Rue occurred in 1891. when he was united with Helen H. Christie, a native of Winchester, the ceremony being solemnized in Missouri.
Jabez H. LaRue made his first trip to the Golden State in 1863, when he drove a team of mules across the plains, and after remaining two years in California he returned to his farm in Missouri. In 1886, he made another trip to California, and in the fall of the following year he was bereft of his wife's companionship through her passing to the Great Beyond. Upon his arrival in California, Mr. La Rue settled in the Malaga District, Fresno County, and purchased forty acres which he planted to grapes. As he prospered he added to his original acreage until he possessed 120 acres: thirty-three acres devoted to grapes and the balance of the land was used for general farming.
He passed away in September. 1917, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years. He was a man of high character and greatly esteemed in his community where he had resided for so many years. Fraternally he was a prominent Mason and was a member of the Baptist Church.
JABEZ H. La RUE The ancestors of the La Rue family, for years prominently engaged in viticulture and agriculture in Fresno County, were from France, where they were Huguenots in religious faith.
Three brothers, William, Isaac, and Jacob, came to America at an early date.
Jacob La Rue was the progenitor of the family now located in Fresno County. He became an early resident of Kentucky.
William H. La Rue, the grandfather of Jabez, is said to have owned a mill where Abraham Lincoln was born. The father of the subject of this sketch was Jacob H. La Rue, a native of Hodgenville, La Rue County, Ky., where he was born in 1799.
He moved his family to Missouri in 1838, settling in Lewis County, where he engaged in farming until 1884, when he migrated to California, where he passed away at Sacramento, having attained the advanced age of eighty-five years.
His son, Jabez H. La Rue. was born in Elizabethtown, Ky., on February 16, 1833. He was but a small boy when his father moved to Missouri and it was there under primitive conditions that the young lad received his education. His early life was spent on his father's farm until he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself.
Jabez H. La Rue was united in marriage first with 'Margaret Haycraft, a native of Kentucky. This union was blessed with three sons and one daughter: Hugh William, whose sketch appears upon another page of this history ; Sarah C, now deceased ; Edwin H. ; and .Samuel Robert, a review of whose career will be found upon another page of this book.
The second marriage of Jabez H. La Rue occurred in 1891. when he was united with Helen H. Christie, a native of Winchester, the ceremony being solemnized in Missouri.
Jabez H. LaRue made his first trip to the Golden State in 1863, when he drove a team of mules across the plains, and after remaining two years in California he returned to his farm in Missouri. In 1886, he made another trip to California, and in the fall of the following year he was bereft of his wife's companionship through her passing to the Great Beyond. Upon his arrival in California, Mr. La Rue settled in the Malaga District, Fresno County, and purchased forty acres which he planted to grapes. As he prospered he added to his original acreage until he possessed 120 acres: thirty-three acres devoted to grapes and the balance of the land was used for general farming.
He passed away in September. 1917, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years. He was a man of high character and greatly esteemed in his community where he had resided for so many years. Fraternally he was a prominent Mason and was a member of the Baptist Church.
Three brothers, William, Isaac, and Jacob, came to America at an early date.
Jacob La Rue was the progenitor of the family now located in Fresno County. He became an early resident of Kentucky.
William H. La Rue, the grandfather of Jabez, is said to have owned a mill where Abraham Lincoln was born. The father of the subject of this sketch was Jacob H. La Rue, a native of Hodgenville, La Rue County, Ky., where he was born in 1799.
He moved his family to Missouri in 1838, settling in Lewis County, where he engaged in farming until 1884, when he migrated to California, where he passed away at Sacramento, having attained the advanced age of eighty-five years.
His son, Jabez H. La Rue. was born in Elizabethtown, Ky., on February 16, 1833. He was but a small boy when his father moved to Missouri and it was there under primitive conditions that the young lad received his education. His early life was spent on his father's farm until he reached his majority, when he began farming for himself.
Jabez H. La Rue was united in marriage first with 'Margaret Haycraft, a native of Kentucky. This union was blessed with three sons and one daughter: Hugh William, whose sketch appears upon another page of this history ; Sarah C, now deceased ; Edwin H. ; and .Samuel Robert, a review of whose career will be found upon another page of this book.
The second marriage of Jabez H. La Rue occurred in 1891. when he was united with Helen H. Christie, a native of Winchester, the ceremony being solemnized in Missouri.
Jabez H. LaRue made his first trip to the Golden State in 1863, when he drove a team of mules across the plains, and after remaining two years in California he returned to his farm in Missouri. In 1886, he made another trip to California, and in the fall of the following year he was bereft of his wife's companionship through her passing to the Great Beyond. Upon his arrival in California, Mr. La Rue settled in the Malaga District, Fresno County, and purchased forty acres which he planted to grapes. As he prospered he added to his original acreage until he possessed 120 acres: thirty-three acres devoted to grapes and the balance of the land was used for general farming.
He passed away in September. 1917, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five years. He was a man of high character and greatly esteemed in his community where he had resided for so many years. Fraternally he was a prominent Mason and was a member of the Baptist Church.
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