Kern County Biographies

MARIUS CESMAT

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

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MARIUS CESMAT is one of the progressive and influential members of the French 
colony in Kern County. He was born in France, in 1858, and came to California in 
1874, direct from his native land, a brother , Jean, having preceeded him about 
fifteen years, and another brother, Germain , following in 1885.
   His father, Jean Cesmat, is a well-to-do farmer in France, and all three of 
these sons were reared on the rural homestead. Mr. Cesmat, upon his arrival in 
this country, proceeded to Los Angeles and engaged in sheep herding, which he 
followed for nine years in various sections of Southern California. He then 
settled at Sumner, in Kern County, and engaged in the occupation in which he has 
been eminently successful and still continues.
   Mr. Cesmat has been twice married, first to Miss Eliza Rouquette, who died in 
1889; and afterward to Miss Frances Monleot, by whom he has one son, Marius.
   Mr. Cesmat is a good business man, and a respected citizen.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 -  page 820