San Luis Obispo County Biographies

CHARLES L. ST. CLAIR

Submitted by Peggy Hooper

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CHARLES L. ST. CLAIR was born in San Jose, California, July 12. 1854. He is the son of 
Arthur and Alida St. Clair, who came West from Michigan in the fall of 1853 and settled 
in San Jose. Young St. Clair came to the city of San Luis Obispo in 1860, and has since 
made this city his home with the exception of a short period when at school in San 
Francisco, where he attended the St. Mary's College, graduating in 1874. In 1878 he 
was married to Albertina (i?) B. Boll, of Mobile, Alabama. They have two children. Mr. St. 
Clair is a prominent member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and has, during 
the five years of his membership, taken an active part in the management of the affairs 
of this powerful organization. A blacksmith by trade, he has been engaged in that 
occupation for fourteen years. Mr. St. Clair is a prominent member of the San Luis 
Obispo Band, and possesses considerable talent as a musician, a gift which has been 
inherited to a surprising degree by his little son, who, at the age of nine years, took 
part in the performances of the band. 

History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California  - by 
C.M. Gidney, Benjamin Brooks, Edwin M. Sheridan, Vol I, II.  -Lewis Publ. Co., 
Chicago, 1917.