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


CHARLES SEMPE. � An industrious and successful stockman is Charles 
Sempe, who was born in Whart Cize, Basses-Pyrenees, France, October 20, 
1880, the son of Jean and Jennie (Chilibolost) Sempe who were well-to-do 
farmer folk in France, and spent their entire lives in that country. Charles 
thus learned farming and caring for stock as it is done in his native land 
from the time he was a lad, at the same time receiving a good education in 
the local schools. When he reached military age he served a year in Company 
'Eight, the Forty-ninth Regiment, at Bayonne. Having a desire to try his 
fortune in California he came to Fresno, arriving December 27, 1904. Being 
familiar with stockraising he found employment with a sheep man, continuing 
in that employment for several years. In 1911 he purchased a flock of sheep 
and ranged them on the plains for three years, when he sold them. However, 
in 1917, in partnership with Jos. Bidegaray he purchased a flock of 2,000 
sheep of which he has charge and is ranging them on the plains in Fresno 
county � a business in which they are doing very well. He is an ardent 
Republican.