California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


ANDREW LAPPINEN.� A resident of Fort Bragg since 1893, Andrew 
Lappinen was born in Vasaland, Finland, May 18, 1873. His father, Matti, 
was a farmer, and naturally Andrew was reared on the farm, his education 
being obtained in the public schools. In 1890 he came to the United States, 
the first three years being spent in Orange, Tex., where he was employed in 
the lumber woods. In June, 1893, he came to Fort Bragg, Mendocino county, 
and was in the employ of the Union Lumber Company until 1900. He then 
purchased the lot on Harrison and Redwood avenue and built the Fort Bragg 
hotel, which was completed in 1901, and he has since been proprietor and 
manager of it. He has also built two stores adjoining. In addition to this 
he is also interested in farming on his ranch of two hundred and forty acres 
near Albion, where he is engaged in stockraising. 

In Fort Bragg occurred the marriage of Mr. Lappinen with Katherina 
Keranen, also a native of Finland, and they have one child, Flma.