Kern County Biographies

M. ESPITALLIER

Submitted by Carolyn Feroben

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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M. ESPITALLIER is one of the enterprising citizens of Sumner, he is a native of 
France, born in Hautes Alpes in 1854. He emigrated to America in 1874, landing 
in San Francisco, December 15. He had learned the trade of a baker in his native 
land, and found employment, and later in San Jose. January 7, 1887, he landed in 
Kern County and engaged in sheep-growing for himself, which he followed until 
1887. He then located in Sumner and resumed his former business, in which he 
still continues with success. He was married in Los Angeles, to Miss Apolonie 
Eyranod, in 1888.
 
Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 - p 781