Tuolumne County Biographies

CAPTAIN A. B. BEAUVAIS

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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This gentleman, a well known and respected citizen of the section where he 
resides, is a native of South Dart�mouth, Massachusetts, having been born in 
July, 1828. Having prepared himself for a seafaring life by the study of 
surveying and navigation, he went to sea in 1842, and continued so employed 
until 1851. Arriving then in San Francisco, he there engaged in mercantile 
affairs for awhile, until when, in the Fall of 1851, he removed to Carson Hill, 
Calaveras County, one year later going to Columbia, where he has since remained. 
Mining and the construction of ditches occupied the Captain�s time until 1870, 
when he was elected County Surveyor, and also received the ap�pointment of 
United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor of the District, which latter position he 
still retains.
He married Miss Vinnie Andrews, a native of Bangor, Maine, by this union there 
being two children living, Addie and Katie.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 411.