History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . assist in establishing there most of its important industries andinstitutions, is Roch Courreges. who owns a fine ranch of sixty acres on the Talbert-Huntington Beach Road, a mile west of Talbert. He was born at Bruges, in theBasses-Pyrenees. France, on November 3, 1850. His father was Joseph Courreges. awell-to-do landowner at Bruges, who conducted a lumber business; he married Justin
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . assist in establishing there most of its important industries andinstitutions, is Roch Courreges. who owns a fine ranch of sixty acres on the Talbert-Huntington Beach Road, a mile west of Talbert. He was born at Bruges, in theBasses-Pyrenees. France, on November 3, 1850. His father was Joseph Courreges. awell-to-do landowner at Bruges, who conducted a lumber business; he married JustineLaroze, and they both lived and died in France. Roch first came to the United Statesin 1867. coming via Panama and landed in San Francisco on February 12; he startedout into the world equipped with a good French grammar school education, andacquired English after he settled in America. Indeed, he is fond of admitting that helearned many a lesson in the language, of his adopted country while talking with hischildren, or perusing their school books. Mr. Courreges first work in California was milking cows on dairy farms in SanFrancisco and in Monterey County, after which, for a while, he went to the placer. <yLci^. /.Aj-t^cLUi^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 1335 mines in Tuolumne County. Then he came back to San Francisco and worked in a tripefactory. At the end of five years, he gave that up and for a year kept a boardinghouse. He then became a partner in the tripe factory, but sold his interest in 1877. Thefollowing year he came to Los Angeles County, and since then he has experienced agreat deal and has seen many changes. The marriage of Mr. Courreges took place at Bolso Chica. in 1880. when he wasunited with Mrs. Magdalena Smith, nee Mogart, a native of Lower California and amember of an old Spanish family. Thirty-seven years later, on November 29, she died,aged sixty-four years. By her first husband, she had had two children. Josephine Smithand Walter Smith; while through her
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