Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ISAAC S. LOSEY

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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A retired merchant of Meridian, of high character and agreeable personality, is 
Isaac S. Losey, who was born in Sussex County, N.J., January 21, 1849, a son of 
Jacob and Emaline (Ogden) Losey, natives of New Jersey.  His father, who was a 
farmer, passed away in New Jersey when Isaac S. was a lad of nineteen years.  
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Losey were the parents of four children: Isaac S. and a twin 
sister, Mrs. Ursula Patterson; Ella, of Orange County, N.Y.; and Alice, 
deceased.
Issac S. Losey attended the public school, and when sixteen years of age started 
to make his way, clerking in a general merchandise store for ten years at Falls, 
Pa.  He went into business for himself in Sussex County, N.J., and conducted his 
store for fifteen years.  In 1889 he came to Meridian; and here he opened a 
store which he conducted for twenty-seven years.  This place of business was 
burned down about 1917.  Since that time, Isaac S. Losey has resided in Meridian 
in his comfortable home.  He was united in marriage on April 6, 1896, at 
Meridian, to Miss Florence E. Colclasure, a native of Meridian and a daughter of 
John and Rachael Colclasure.  Her parents came to California in the early days, 
being farmers in Illinois.  Mr. and Mrs. Losey have been blessed with two sons: 
Oscar I., practicing dentistry in the Forsythe Dental College, at Boston, 
although he is a graduate of the University of California, where he studied 
dentistry; and Harry C., at San Francisco.  In his political views Mr. Losey is 
a Democrat.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 627