A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . came a pioneerof ]\Iilwaukee, Wis., during the year 1836,later became interested in the tilling of thesoil in Walworth county, and was one of theorganizers of the First National Bank of Elk-horn, Wis. He traces his ancestry to Gen-eral Greene of the Revolutionary fame. It was in 1899 that !\Ir. De Goudres broughthis family to California and settled in Pasa-dena. A year later he removed to LongBeach, where since 1903 he has been associat-ed
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . came a pioneerof ]\Iilwaukee, Wis., during the year 1836,later became interested in the tilling of thesoil in Walworth county, and was one of theorganizers of the First National Bank of Elk-horn, Wis. He traces his ancestry to Gen-eral Greene of the Revolutionary fame. It was in 1899 that !\Ir. De Goudres broughthis family to California and settled in Pasa-dena. A year later he removed to LongBeach, where since 1903 he has been associat-ed with the Townsend-Dayman Company assalesman. At the same time he has been in-terested in the buying and selling of land, thebuilding and sale of dwelling houses, and hasalso erected a neat residence for his familyon a lot 150x160. occupying a desirable loca-tion on American avenue. In addition to bisother investments he is a stockholder in theLong Beach National and Long Beach Sav-ings Banks, in both of which he officiates asa member of the board of directors, being amember of the finance and loan the Board of Trade he aims to as-. ^2^^z__ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL l^KCORD. 661 sist in all enterprises for the material devel-opment of Long Beach and- has accomplishedmuch tending toward the public welfare dur-ing the comparatively brief duration of hisresidence in this city. All through his life,from the time of casting his first ballot, he hasbeen a stanch adherent of the Republicanparty and has given his influence and vote insupport of its men and measures. Althoughnot personally identified with any denomina-tion, he is interested in religious movementsand contributes toward the maintenace of theMethodist Episcopal Church, with which hiswife is identified. ITe has always been tem-perate in his habits and an earnest advocateof men of high moral character to fill offices Mr. De Coudres is a strictly self-mademan in every sense of the word. Coming t
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