Tulare County Biographies

EMERIE RENAUD

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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The French Canadian, wherever his lot may be cast, generally develops into a 
good and prosperous citizen with much credit for his easy manner and thrifty 
qualities. This fact is illustrated in the successful life and high standing of 
Emerie Renaud, a native of the province of Quebec and a descendant of one of the 
oldest and most honored French families of Canada, who owns and occupies one of 
the most attractive of the many beautiful home farms in Tulare county, a stock 
farm four and a half miles north of Tulare. Mr. Renaud was born July 25, 1857, 
near Montreal, which was the birthplace grandsire, Charles Renaud, Sr., and of 
his father, Charles Renaud, Jr. The former farmed all his life near Montreal, 
and his homestead is now the property of one of his grandsons. Following in the 
footsteps of his ancestors, Charles Renaud was a farmer all his life, and passed 
away when he was but fifty-seven. His wife was Marcellian Pelon, born in Quebec, 
daughter of Celesta Pelon, who was a farmer. She and ten of her twelve children 
survive.
Emerie, the third in order of birth, is the only one of them living in 
California.  In the district school and on the farm Emerie Renaud received the 
practical education that has made possible the success he has achieved. When he 
was sixteen years old he came with a brother and an uncle to Nevada, but soon 
located at Sacramento, Cal., where he worked as a farm hand two years. After 
that he mined four or five years with indifferent success in the diggings at 
Bodie, Cal., and at others in Nevada, then returned to Sacramento, where he 
married and whence he came in 1884 to Tulare county. He bought a farm on Elk 
Bayou, which, however, proved unproductive, and when he had operated it at a 
loss for two years he rented land and engaged on an extensive scale in grain 
raising and this latter venture met with great success. Leasing from J. Goldman 
& Company the old Stokes estate of three thousand acres, he raised grain in 
large quantities on that land as well as on a three-thousand�acre ranch near 
Porterville, which he leased a number of years. Other purchases and leases 
brought his holdings to the ten thousand acre mark, and the prosecution of his 
enterprise required the use of one hundred and fifty horses and mules and two 
harvesters. In 1903 he bought the old J. B. Zumwalt place, four hundred and 
twenty acres, in the management of which he has been very prosperous, having 
four hundred acres in alfalfa, a dairy of one hundred cows with modern 
equipment, including a separator, plenty of good horses and three hundred hogs. 
Besides operating his homestead he operates under lease thirteen hundred acres 
adjoining, which he devotes to grain and stock-raising. He is constantly 
improving his home place and now has one of the really fine residences of that 
part of the county, standing as it does amid palms and orange trees, on a 
beautiful lawn. Mr. Renaud is a director in the Dairymen's Co-operative Dairy 
company.
At Sacramento, Mr. Renaud married Miss Mary Giguerre, born in Yolo county, Cal., 
daughter of Frank Giguerre, a pioneer of 1849, and they have nine living 
children: Joseph, Walter, Laura, Flora (wife of J. Damron, Jr.), Arthur, 
Blanche, Bryan, Elma and Collis. Mr. Renaud affiliates with Tulare City lodge 
No. 306, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with Tulare Encampment, and with 
Olive Branch lodge No. 269, F. & A. M. His moral and theological creed is "Do 
right and it will be right." Politically he is a steadfast Democrat, and as such 
he was elected to the presidency of the board of school trustees of the 
Enterprise district. In a public-spirited way he takes a deep and abiding 
interest in all propositions looking to the advancement of the community or the 
amelioration of the condition of the people at large.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 561-562