Lake County Biographies

GEORGE H. FOREE

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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            GEORGE H. FOREE, a Lakeport merchant, was born in Solano County, 
California, in July, 1853, and was early left an orphan.  He first graduated at 
Lincoln Grammar School in San Francisco and afterward at Heald�s Business 
College in the same city.  He was then for several years engaged in various 
occupations,�bookkeeping, clerking in a store and mining; in the latter he was 
employed about seven years, in Siskiyou, Klamath and El Dorado counties.  In 
1883 he went to Lakeport, Lake County and bought the hardware store of Tate & 
Co., and has ever since been engaged in that trade, with varying fortune.  His 
store has been twice burned,�in 1885 and 1887; and his dwelling was burned in 
August, 1888, the fire in each case catching from adjoining buildings.  He is 
still a bachelor, but his sister has resided with him since his first arrival in 
Lakeport.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891