The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 336 GEORGE E. DESMARAIS. George E. Desmarais is the owner of an excellent farm property of one hundred and twenty acres not far from Moxee City. This he has brought under a high state of cultivation, transforming it into very productive fields. His business interests are thereby successfully conducted and he is meeting with well deserved prosperity in what he undertakes. He was born in Quebec, Canada, September 14, 1880, a son of Israel and Sophia Desmarais, who in 1882 removed from Canada to Crookston, Minnesota. They are mentioned at length on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of Louis Desmarais, a brother of the subject of this review. George E. Desmarais attended school in Minnesota and in 1900, when twenty years of age, made his way to the northwest. Arriving in Yakima county, he purchased thirteen acres of wild land on the Moxee that was covered with sagebrush. No plow had ever turned a furrow upon this tract and it required much arduous labor to transform the hitherto undeveloped district into the rich fields seen today. Mr. Desmarais worked on energetically and persistently, however, and as his financial resources increased he kept adding to his original holdings until he now has one hundred and twenty acres of valuable and productive farm land, all of which is under cultivation. He is engaged extensively in raising hay, corn, grain, beets, potatoes and hops. He built a home upon his place and has added many modern improvements which make this one of the attractive farm properties of the district. On the 29th of February, 1905, Mr. Desmarais was married to Miss Amabiles Crevier, who was born in Canada, where they were married. Their children were: Cecelia; Euclid, deceased: Alice; Florence; Robert; Leon; Corina; one who died in infancy; George; and another child who passed away in infancy. The family are all members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church. In politics Mr. Desmarais maintains an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than for party. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus and also to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is interested in public progress along all lines leading to the benefit of the community at large and he has served as a director of the drainage district. His business affairs have been most carefully and successfully conducted and he is today one of the most prosperous farmers of his part of the state. A line orchard upon his home place proves the value of the region for fruit raising and he now has extensive crops of grain and vegetables where was found wild sagebrush land at the time of his arrival in the state. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.