Solano County Biographies

RICHARD P. LE GRO

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born in Cumberland county, Maine, July 4, 1844.  Here his parents died, and 
he went to Boston, Massachusetts, residing there until the breaking out of the 
Rebellion in 1861, when he enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Maine Volunteer 
Infantry, a regiment raised for the nine months� service, and honorably 
discharged at the expiration of the term.  In 1863 we find him in Norfolk, 
Virginia, whither he had gone to work in the gas-works, with a brother-in-law, 
for nine months; after which he returned to Boston, again enlisting, in the 
regular army, serving three years, and discharged at the barracks in Omaha, 
Nebraska, in 1868.  After returning to Boston on a visit, he came to Suisun, 
arriving October, 1868, securing a place in the Suisun City Mills, which he 
still occupies.  Married, in this city, Miss Kate, daughter of C. D. Smith, July 
4, 1872.  Bertie L. and Eva A. are their children.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 415