The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 105

LEON CHARRON.

Leon Charron is the owner if a highly cultivated tract of land of fifty-five
acres. He was one of the pioneers in the district in which he makes his home and
originally had a ninety-five acre tract of land but sold forty acres of this for
the townsite of Moxee, for the town had not yet sprung into existence at the
time of his arrival in that locality. Mr. Charron is a native of Canada. He was
born in Montreal, October 5, 1852. a son of Louis and Aurelia Charron, both of
whom passed away in Canada.

Through the period of his boyhood and youth Leon Charron remained in his native
country and was twenty-five years of age when in 1877 he took up his abode at
Seattle, Washington. He spent two years on the western coast at that time but in
1879 returned to Montreal, where he lived until 1880, when he went to Crookston,
Minnesota. For two decades he continued to make his home in that state and in
1900 he came to Yakima county. In the intervening period of eighteen years he
has been engaged in farming. He located on the Moxee, where he purchased
ninety-five acres of land, but afterward furthered the development and
improvement of the district through the sale of forty acres for the townsite. He
still owns town property and yet retains possession of fifty-five acres of his
original tract, which is devoted to the production of hay, potatoes, sugar beets
and other crops. This was all wild land when it came into his possession and it
scarcely seemed that nature could so quickly respond to the labors of man, but
irrigation and effort have wrought most wonderful results, making this a highly
productive region.

In 1880 Mr. Charron was married to Miss Corinne Brussard, a native of Canada,
who in her girlhood days became a resident of Minnesota, where she passed away
in 1885. The children of that marriage are: Eli, who is engaged in ranching on
the Moxee, where he has one hundred acres of land; Lucien, who is married and
has three children, two daughters and a son, residing with him upon his ranch of
forty acres on the Moxee; Leo, who rents his father's place; and Louis.
deceased. In 1889 Mr. Charron was again married, his second union being with
Corrine Jubuc, who is also a native of Canada and went to Minnesota in her
girlhood days. The children of this marriage are: Valentina, the wife of Albert
Captistan, a rancher on the Moxee, by whom she has two daughters; Emma, the wife
of Arthur Stmars, a ranchman, by whom she has one son; Maria, Ida and Rose, all
at home; and Louis, who is in college.

The parents are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church. Mr. Charron was one
of its founders and has been most active in its work and generous in its
support. Mr. Charron has long been closely identified with the development and
progress of his section of the state and has made valuable contribution to the
work of upbuilding and improvement. He is now the owner of one of the excellent
ranch properties of the district, upon which he has a fine artesian well eight
feet in diameter and thirteen hundred feet in depth, from which comes a flow of
water yielding thirty-five hundred gallons per minute. This well furnishes Moxee
with its water supply. The water is of the purest quality and the well is the
finest in the valley. Mr. Charron has always displayed the most progressive
spirit in the development of his property and at the same time has cooperated
heartily in all plans and movements for the general good.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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