He became notable as one of the silver bullion kings of early Los Angeles, as smelter and part owner of the Union mine. He was a water magnate.
He left Canada for San Francisco at the height of the California Gold Rush and convinced his older brother, Prudent Beaudry to join him.
He worked as a merchant in Nicaragua for a time, and a gold mine at the San Gabriel placers near Los Angeles.
During the Civil War, he became a commissionary agent with the First United States Infantry Regiment. He opened a store at Fort Independence in the Owens Valley. The next year he opened another store at Cerro Gordo, and by May 1868, he had traded so many customer debts for mining property that he owned a half interest in the Union mine, when Mortimer Belshaw and Abner Elder also began to acquire shares.
In mid-August 1868, he fired up his small furnace at the lower end of town at Cerro Gordo, to smelt mine ore into silver-lead bars of base bullion.
In Septemer 1870, he began to amass fortune, when he opened a new smelter modeled after Belshaw's which increased his bullion output to nine tons per day.
Victor Heights in Los Angeles, California is named after him. Victor Heights lies between Chinatown, Los Angeles, and the center part of Echo Park, off Sunset Boulevard near the Pasadena Freeway below Elysian Park. It is also situated near the southern terminus of the Elysian Hills (formerly Beaudry Park), a small chain of sandy siltstone landforms with minor imbedded conglomerate that stretch from the Santa Monica Mountains (the portion known as the Hollywood Hills) in Griffith Park down the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles.
The downtown street that bears his name actually refers to his brother, Prudent Beaudry, who was the Mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.
He left Canada for San Francisco at the height of the California Gold Rush and convinced his older brother, Prudent Beaudry to join him.
He worked as a merchant in Nicaragua for a time, and a gold mine at the San Gabriel placers near Los Angeles.
During the Civil War, he became a commissionary agent with the First United States Infantry Regiment. He opened a store at Fort Independence in the Owens Valley. The next year he opened another store at Cerro Gordo, and by May 1868, he had traded so many customer debts for mining property that he owned a half interest in the Union mine, when Mortimer Belshaw and Abner Elder also began to acquire shares.
In mid-August 1868, he fired up his small furnace at the lower end of town at Cerro Gordo, to smelt mine ore into silver-lead bars of base bullion.
In Septemer 1870, he began to amass fortune, when he opened a new smelter modeled after Belshaw's which increased his bullion output to nine tons per day.
Victor Heights in Los Angeles, California is named after him. Victor Heights lies between Chinatown, Los Angeles, and the center part of Echo Park, off Sunset Boulevard near the Pasadena Freeway below Elysian Park. It is also situated near the southern terminus of the Elysian Hills (formerly Beaudry Park), a small chain of sandy siltstone landforms with minor imbedded conglomerate that stretch from the Santa Monica Mountains (the portion known as the Hollywood Hills) in Griffith Park down the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles.
The downtown street that bears his name actually refers to his brother, Prudent Beaudry, who was the Mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.
He became notable as one of the silver bullion kings of early Los Angeles, as smelter and part owner of the Union mine. He was a water magnate.
He left Canada for San Francisco at the height of the California Gold Rush and convinced his older brother, Prudent Beaudry to join him.
He worked as a merchant in Nicaragua for a time, and a gold mine at the San Gabriel placers near Los Angeles.
During the Civil War, he became a commissionary agent with the First United States Infantry Regiment. He opened a store at Fort Independence in the Owens Valley. The next year he opened another store at Cerro Gordo, and by May 1868, he had traded so many customer debts for mining property that he owned a half interest in the Union mine, when Mortimer Belshaw and Abner Elder also began to acquire shares.
In mid-August 1868, he fired up his small furnace at the lower end of town at Cerro Gordo, to smelt mine ore into silver-lead bars of base bullion.
In Septemer 1870, he began to amass fortune, when he opened a new smelter modeled after Belshaw's which increased his bullion output to nine tons per day.
Victor Heights in Los Angeles, California is named after him. Victor Heights lies between Chinatown, Los Angeles, and the center part of Echo Park, off Sunset Boulevard near the Pasadena Freeway below Elysian Park. It is also situated near the southern terminus of the Elysian Hills (formerly Beaudry Park), a small chain of sandy siltstone landforms with minor imbedded conglomerate that stretch from the Santa Monica Mountains (the portion known as the Hollywood Hills) in Griffith Park down the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles.
The downtown street that bears his name actually refers to his brother, Prudent Beaudry, who was the Mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.
He left Canada for San Francisco at the height of the California Gold Rush and convinced his older brother, Prudent Beaudry to join him.
He worked as a merchant in Nicaragua for a time, and a gold mine at the San Gabriel placers near Los Angeles.
During the Civil War, he became a commissionary agent with the First United States Infantry Regiment. He opened a store at Fort Independence in the Owens Valley. The next year he opened another store at Cerro Gordo, and by May 1868, he had traded so many customer debts for mining property that he owned a half interest in the Union mine, when Mortimer Belshaw and Abner Elder also began to acquire shares.
In mid-August 1868, he fired up his small furnace at the lower end of town at Cerro Gordo, to smelt mine ore into silver-lead bars of base bullion.
In Septemer 1870, he began to amass fortune, when he opened a new smelter modeled after Belshaw's which increased his bullion output to nine tons per day.
Victor Heights in Los Angeles, California is named after him. Victor Heights lies between Chinatown, Los Angeles, and the center part of Echo Park, off Sunset Boulevard near the Pasadena Freeway below Elysian Park. It is also situated near the southern terminus of the Elysian Hills (formerly Beaudry Park), a small chain of sandy siltstone landforms with minor imbedded conglomerate that stretch from the Santa Monica Mountains (the portion known as the Hollywood Hills) in Griffith Park down the Bunker Hill neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles.
The downtown street that bears his name actually refers to his brother, Prudent Beaudry, who was the Mayor of Los Angeles from 1874 to 1876.
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