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From: Sharon Jones <>
Subject: [CABUTTE] Andrew Jackson Lemmon
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 15:19:26 -0700


Posted on: Butte Co., CA Biographies
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Surname: LEMMON, CASSIDY, RUSSELL, MORGAN, DAY, WYMAN
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ANDREW JACKSON LEMMON.-A native son, who has spent the better part of his
life in Butte County, is A. J. Lemmon, now a resident of Rackerby, where
he is serving as the efficient postmaster. He was born in San Francisco,
January 8,1855, a son of William and Jane (Cassidy) Lemmon, the former
a native of Philadelphia, and a steam engineer, who came to California
in 1852 and was engaged in placer-mining at Forbestown several years. The
latter was a native of Ireland and came to California when she was a young
girl and here was married to Mr. Lemmon. She died at about sixty vears
of age. William Lemmon was shot and killed in 1895; at Forbestown and was
about seventy years old. A. J. Lemmon was the oldest of a family of five
children and was educated in the public schools of Butte County. When he
decided to marry, he chose as his bride, Miss Julia Russell, a native of
Butte County and a daughter of Albert P. and Rosine (Morgan) Russell-Day,
pioneers of 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon have had five children born to them
Edith, a teacher at Modesto; Annie, an assistant to her father at Rackerby;
Mamie, married Ernest Wyman and lives at Colusa; Harry, has heard his country's
call and volunteered his services to "make the world safe for democracy"
and is in the United States Navy and assigned to duty aboard the McDougal;
and Andrew, is with the United States Expeditionary Forces in France. From
1902 until 1916, Mr. Lemmon conducted a general merchandise store in Rackerby,
where he owns twelve acres of land, besides which he bought, in 1896, ninety
acres in Evansville precinct, Butte County, which he has set to peaches
and figs. He possesses excellent business judgment, is a man of true worth,
and both he and his good wife are highly esteemed by a large circle of
friends in Butte County. Mr Lemmon is a memeber of the Owl Lodge at Challenge;
and he has served as a trustee of the Rackerby school district for abourt
nine years.

Source: "History of Butte County", Charles C Mansfield; Historic Record
Company; Los Angeles, CA, 1918, pg 1225

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