Santa Clara County Biographies


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J. M. BEAUMONT. 
 
        This gentleman commenced business in San Jose, at Nos. 13 and 15 West 
Santa Clara Street, Knox Block, November 11, 1885, having bought the drug store 
of B. J. Rhodes & Co., who established the business. Mr. Beaumont was born in 
Alton, Illinois, in 1839, his parents, J. B. and K. E. (Roberts) Beaumont, 
having removed from Philadelphia to Illinois in 1832, and being among the 
pioneers of Illinois. At that time Alton was perhaps the largest town on the 
Mississippi River above New Orleans. Letters for St. Louis came addressed to St, 
Louis, " near Alton, Illinois." Mr. Beaumont remained at Alton until his 
twenty-first year, attending the public schools of that town, finally graduating 
at a private boarding-school at Farmingham, Massachusetts. He afterward attended 
a mercantile college at St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1857. He was for 
three years bookkeeper for the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company, at St. Louis, 
after which he went into the lumber business with his father, in 1863, in 
Chicago, remaining four years; later he was in the same business at Big Rapids, 
Michigan, until 1885. He came to California in August of 1885, and in the 
following November bought the drug-store which he now owns.
        Mr. Beaumont has been associated with his father, J. B. Beaumont, since 
1863, first in the lumber, and later in the drug business. Theirs is the leading 
drug�store in San Jose, and under the thorough and energetic management of its 
present proprietors is likely to remain at the front, its location, near one of 
the principal business corners of this growing city, being a most fortunate one.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
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