Originally Posted by odinthor
e_r, what my notes have on Victor Beaudry:
Beaudry, Victor ca. 1830, born in Canada; brother of Prudent Beaudry; 1849, to California; 1855, to Los Angeles; September 22, 1855, published (Los Angeles Star): “Bags for Sale, or made to order by Machinery […]. Also—Tents, Hose, Ceilings, and Wagon Covers sewed. V. Beaudry. Third door from Aliso Street, —Beaudry’s Block, Negro Alley”; July 11, 1857, published (Los Angeles Star): aiding in the civic Independence Day proceedings; 1858, with Marchessault organized the Santa Anita Mining Company; 1860, present in L.A. as a merchant with savings of $1,000; July 14, 1860, published (Los Angeles Star): on Grand Jury; 1861, “made Sutler of the First Regiment of Infantry, United States regular army, and went east to the seat of war, and was with the army till the close of the war, suffering many hardships which greatly impaired his health. Officers of the army who had become warm friends of his were afterward stationed at Camp Independence, Inyo County, California, and they invited him to open a store at that point. This he did, and later acquired interests in the Cerro Gordo Mines, which he worked, in company with Mr. M.W. Belshaw, with great success” (Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, p. 375); “In 1872 Mr. Victor Beaudry returned to Montreal, where he was married during the following year to a daughter of M. Leblanc, Sheriff of Montreal. The result of this union was five children, now residing with their mother in Montreal, where Victor died in 1888, having resided in Los Angeles from 1881 to 1886, where he had, in company with his brother Prudent, become interested in real estate” (op. cit., p. 375).
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