San Diego County Biographies
 
CHARLES DELEVAL 

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Was born at Pays de Calais, France, March 29, 1832; his parents were also 
natives of France. In 1851 he came to America, sailing from Havre to New York, 
and across the Isthmus of Panama to San Francisco, where he arrived in 1852. He 
went to placer mining in Fresno and Mariposa counties, prospecting for about six 
years. He then came to Los Angeles and started a grocery store, which he 
successfully carried on for eight years, also running a flour-mill at San Jos�, 
continuing the two lines of business until 1870, when he sold out and came to 
San Diego and started a commission and wholesale grocery store, under the firm 
name of Deleval & Waterman, which they continued until 1874. They sold out to 
Stewart & Capron, and started the liquor business on the corner of F and Fifth 
streets, putting up their own building. But this business proved disastrous, and 
in 1880 they went into liquidation, and Mr. Deleval returned to Los Angeles, 
where he resumed the grocery business for five years and then sold out and 
speculated, during the boom of 1886, in real estate. In 1889, from pure love of 
the climate of San Diego, he returned to that city and entered the wholesale and 
retail liquor business, under the firm name of Charles Deleval & Co., buying out 
and succeeding the San Bernardino Wine Company, and they now carry a stock of 
about $5,000 in wines and liquors.
        Mr. Deleval was married at Los Angeles, March 12, 1861, to Miss Marie 
Hennequin. They have five daughters.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  198