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• Hij is geboren augustus 1849 in Natural Bridge, Rockbridge, Virginia, USA.
• Beroep: in het jaar 1912 in Farmer, Capay, Yolo, California, Verenigde Staten.
• Woonachtig:
• in het jaar 1847: Mendocino Co, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1871: Sutter, Butte, California, USA.
• in het jaar 1898: Skagway, Alaska.
• in het jaar 1899: Dawson City, Alaska.
• in het jaar 1900: Main St, Woodland, Yolo, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1910: Bounty Road, Capay, Yolo, California, Verenigde Staten.
• in het jaar 1912: Capay, Yolo, California, Verenigde Staten.
• Een kind van Joseph N D LaBrie en Elizabeth Downs

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Hij heeft/had een relatie met S Fannie Johnson.

Kind(eren):

1. Minnie E Labrie  1874-???? 
2. George W LaBrie  1876-???? 
3. Fannie Amie Labrie  1881-???? 
4. Ruby Labrie  1898-????

Notities over Napoleon Bonapart LaBrie

History of Yolo County, California, USA" by Tom Gregory. Published by theHistoric Record Company, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1913, pages 495 - 499.

Napoleon Bonapart LaBRIE

As the name indicates, the subject of this sketch is of French descent and in addition to that he is a native of Virginia, having been born near the Natural Bridge, Rockbridge county, May 12, 1849. He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Downs) LaBrie, who were born, respectively, in France and Virginia. The father was educated for the priesthood, but becoming dissatisfied with his religion he gave it up and for this he was disinherited. He then immigrated to this country and settled in Virginia, where he married. After coming to this country he became a sculptor. At the time of the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army as a lieutenant and met his death in the battle of the Wilderness. His wife passed away in Virginia in 1906. Of the ten children born to these parents only two survive, Napoleon B. and his youngest sister, Josephine, who is now Mrs. Dudley, of Lynchburg, Va.

Until he was eighteen years of age Napoleon B. LaBrie remained in his native state, then came to California, USA and settled in Mendocino county. Naturally in that unsettled locality he engaged in stock raising, and in protecting his herds from the wild animals from the surrounding forests he became an expert and noted hunter. Bear, panthers and wild cats were his especial prey, as these fierce canivora were thickest around his colt and calf corrals. The year 1898 found him aboard a steamer bound from Seattle to Skagway, his soul burning up with the Klondyke fever. Climbing through the snowy Chilcoot Pass and making his way down the Yukon, he struck Dawson City and joined the great army of goldseekers. Of course there were not mines enough to go around, and he did what he could. Chopping wood was a profitable business, and Mrr LaBrie could swing an axe with the best of them. From $15 to $20 a cord for turning the forests into four-foot lengths for the river steamers was fair pay, and better than thousands of gold mines on the creeks were paying. Where the timber was easy to get at he has cut three cords in a day. The intense cold was no detriment to the choppers; many days they would be working when it was sixty below. At times they would lay their axes aside and "stampede" with the band for some new-found rich creek. There he would stake out his claim and return with the crowd to civilization and his woodchopping. Another diversion was hunting and he sold many a pound of bear and moose meat to miners and other consumers at lofty prices. The flesh of a twelve hundred pound moose netted him $600. Mrr LaBrie says he knew of hunters in the Klondyke who cleared $10,000 a year each in the wild meat business. He has seen caribou in droves of one thousand on their way north, where they have their young, and afterward has seen the same herds returning south with the calves. He passed a long winter (seven months) twenty miles north of the Artic Circle alone with his dog, some of the time in semi-starvation. When he had settled down in the final sleep that comes to the hungry man in that awful cold he was awakened by a noise outside the cabin, and dragging himself to the door, saw two moose nearby. He managed to get his rifle at work though he was so weak he could hardly stand, he managed to kill both of the animals. It was providential, as he was helpless in that place, having no snowshoes for travel and no food to eat on the journey. Once he was found by Indians frozen on the trail. He had $7,000 with him, his partner having gone ahead with the dog-team for help. The Indians thawed him out and saved his life.

Mrr LaBrie made a number of trips between Seattle and Dawson before he concluded that he had enough of the north and its great white wastes. He is now a farmer of the farm instead of a tiller of the nugget bearing soil along the icy Yukon, and he finds the Capay valley more congenial than the Alaskan plains. He married in Colusa Miss Fannie Johnson, and the children born to them are: Minnie, George (deceased), Ruby and Fannie. Minnie married D. E. Jacobs, and they have one daughter named Bernice. Ruby married E. W. Armfield, who is practicing law in Woodland. Fannie, Mrs. Brunson, has two sons, Glenford and Lloyd. Mrs. LaBrie passed away thirty years ago. Mrr LaBrie has charge of acres in almonds and other fruits, carrying on this large orchard with success, and now, after his adventurous life, he takes it easy in his comfortable home in Capay.

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