Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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HON. FREDERICK LAMBOURN, 
 
senior partner in the wholesale grocery firm of Lambourn & Turner, was born in 
England, in 1837, but passed most of his childhood youth on his father's farm in 
Marshall County, Illinois, his parents having immigrated to the United States 
while he was quite young. He attended Eureka College in Woodford County, 
Illinois, but did not stay long enough to graduate, for want of funds, and in 
1859 came to California and has been a resident of Los Angeles County ever 
since. Previous to 1876 he was engaged in farming, wine-making and ranching, 
part of the time as manager of William Workman's extensive Puente stock ranch. 
In July of the year last named Mr. Lambourn started in the grocery business, in 
company with William F. Turner, his present partner, in one room of the brick 
block they now own and occupy, comprising numbers 23, 25, 27, 29 and 31 Aliso 
street. The firm had erected the first story of that part of the block including 
numbers 29 and 31 the same year they opened their grocery in one of the rooms; 
and the following year (1887) built another story. Two or three years later they 
erected the first story of the remainder of the block, and some four years ago 
added the second story to that part. The block has over ninety feet frontage on 
Aliso street, and is a substantial business building. In the beginning of their 
modest mercantile ventures the proprietors did all the work, one of them acting 
as salesman and bookkeeper and the other delivering the goods to customers; but 
by upright dealing and judicious management the volume of business steadily 
increased and more help and facilities were added; another, and later another, 
room was occupied; gradually a jobbing department was developed; and now the 
bulk of the goods handled is sold by wholesale, though the firm does a 
flourishing business in the retail department. Their jobbing trade extends along 
the lines of railroad to points throughout Southern California and as far east 
as New Mexico and Western Texas. Mr. Lambourn has had some experience in 
politics, having been elected on the Democratic ticket to the General Assembly 
of California, in which he served in 1875 and 1876, with satisfaction to his 
constituents. Since coming to Los Angeles, Mr. Lambourn married Miss Georgia 
Morrison, a Texas lady. They have two sons: Frederick Francis, aged nine years, 
and William Walter, seven years old.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 548
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler