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 . tscharter members, but discontinued his member-ship after retiring from the business. A Repub-lican in views, he took a warm interest in thepolitical contest of the day and kept thoroughlyposted concerning the problems afifecting theprosperity of our countn,. GRATIAN BIDART. France has contribu-ted her share to the citizenship of Southern Cali-fornia and among the number is Gratian known in the vicinity of Puente. where withbis
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 . tscharter members, but discontinued his member-ship after retiring from the business. A Repub-lican in views, he took a warm interest in thepolitical contest of the day and kept thoroughlyposted concerning the problems afifecting theprosperity of our countn,. GRATIAN BIDART. France has contribu-ted her share to the citizenship of Southern Cali-fornia and among the number is Gratian known in the vicinity of Puente. where withbis brother, Bertrand, he owns a ranch of thirty-two and a half acres, formerly a part of theThomas Rowland estate. Born in Basses-Pyre-nees, France, March 6, 1877, he is a son of Jeanand Marie (Falsa) Bidart, both born in the samepqrt of France as was their son. Leaving hiswife and children in their native land Jean Bidartcame to California in 1888 and established him-self in the sheep business at Newport, a busi-ness which prospered under his careful handling,and later he removed to the Chino rancho, wherehe branched out on a larger scale. In the mean. ALFRED H. SMILEY ALBERT K. SMILEY HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 945 time, in 1891, he had been joined by his wifeand children, and for nine years they made theirhome on the ranch just mentioned. At the endof this time, however, the parents and severalof the children returned to their native land,where ]Mr. Bidart has large property holdings,and where he carries on a farm and stock their eight children, four are in France withtheir parents, Maria, Mariana, Jennie M. andMartin, while the others, Gratian, Bertrand,Marie and Jean, are residents of California. Gratian Bidart was a lad of about fourteenyears when with his mother and the other chil-dren he came to America to join his father. Hewas of an age to be useful on the ranch whichhis father had established in California and sothoroughly had he learned the details o
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