California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


JEAN SAHARGUN.� Jean Sahargun was born in Aldudes, Basses- 
Pyrenees, October 13. 1876. His father, Martin Sahargun, being a farmer, 
the lad Jean was reared to farming and stock-raising as practiced in the 
south of France, where he received a good education in the common schools. 
The father died when Jean was a youth of thirteen years. He began work- 
ing out on farms to make his own livelihood, remaining with one employer 
for seven years. He then entered the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the French 
army, serving three years, when he was honorably discharged. Having a 
brother Pierre who had migrated to California in 1887 and was engaged in 
sheep-raising in Fresno County, Jean determined to cast in his lot on the 
Pacific Coast and came hither to join his brother. 

Pierre Sahargun was in partnership with Peter Arbios, with headquarters 
in Mendota, and became a very successful stockman, though his career was 
cut short by his death in 1908 at the age of thirty-nine years. Pierre had mar- 
ried Miss Josephine Daunet, the ceremony taking place in Mendota on Octo- 
ber 17, 1903. She was born in Lurbei, Basses-Pyrenees. Her father. Pierre 
Daunet, was a stockman at Lurbei. In 1900 she came to Fresno where she 
resided until her marriage. She is the mother of one child, John. 

Jean Sahargun arrived in Mendota in December, 1900, where he assisted 
his brother in, the care of his flock. In 1906, having accumulated some means, 
he bought a bunch of sheep and started in for himself. Meanwhile, his 
brother's health failing, he also took care of his flock until his death. Mr. 
Sahargun has increased the number of his band and is now accounted a well- 
to-do and successful stockman on the West Side in Fresno County, ranging 
his band on the plains in winter and in the Sugar Pine district of the Sierras 
during the summer. He is a man of kindly nature and is liberal and enterpris- 
ing, lie is a member of the California Automobile Association.