Solano County Biographies

JAMES A. LAMONT

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1842, July 9th, where he resided for the first 
six years of his life, after which he was taken by his parents to Little Rock, 
Arkansas, and remained there two years, thence moved to Nashville, Tennessee, 
and afterward to Boone county, Kentucky, where he resided for five years.  Came 
to this county with his parents in 1854, where he engaged in farming for several 
years.  In 1865 Mr. Lamont graduated at the Benicia College and Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar, practiced in Napa and Grass Valley, Nevada county, for 
a year and a half, when he returned to Nashville, to wind up the estate of his 
parents, remaining there three years.  In 1869 he returned, and in September of 
the following year purchased the interest of J. E. Williston, and became a 
partner in the firm of Egery & Lamont.  He married, in San Francisco, January 
17, 1878, Miss Sara D. Barry, a native of New York, who was born in December, 
1853, by whom he has one son, James Barry.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 369-370