California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


E. FAVRELIERE. � A member of one of the oldest and most prominent 
families in France, E. Favreliere was one of those whom the great San Fran- 
cisco fire touched severely, since in that disaster he lost all of his capital of 
$10,000, leaving him but $17 with which to face the future. To start anew he 
went to Glenn county, but as there was no opening for his trade of cook he 
went to work on a hay press for the entire summer, afterwards bucking sacks 
for two weeks. Later he became foreman at the warehouse, and in about 
four months had saved $450. Many years before he had homesteaded one 
hundred acres adjoining Ukiah, upon which he had spent about $11,000 on 
improvements, and in 1906 he located on it and purchased additional prop- 
erty until he owns one hundred and seventy-four acres. After 1906 he bought 
seven lots in Ukiah, upon which he built a laundry. Later he started the 
Depot restaurant which he successfully conducted, making the place the finest 
of its kind in the city. 

Mr. Favreliere was born near Pieux, France. His ancestors had been 
resident there for over nine hundred years, and were wealthy landowners 
until the time of the revolution, when their position and lands were wrested 
from them. One of the paternal ancestors fought under LaFayette in the 
American Revolution and a few years later he was killed in the French Revo- 
lution. The subject of this sketch, born in 1866, was deprived of school ad- 
vantages, and he worked on the farm until he was fifteen years of age, and 
when he was seventeen years old he had learned the trade of cook. When 
eighteen years of age he entered the French army, in which he served three 
and a half years. Then, in 1890, he came to San Francisco, where he was 
variously employed until he was made second chef in the Palace Hotel, and 
later became chef in several clubs in turn. He then started in business for 
himself and had a restaurant at the time of the big fire. At present he is 
proprietor of the French-American restaurant in Ukiah. Fraternally he is a 
member of the Independent Order of Red Men and politically is a Democrat.