The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 425

ANTOINE LA FRAMBOISE.

For twenty years Antoine La Framboise has been a resident of Yakima county and
throughout this entire period has been engaged in blacksmithing. At the present
time also he has important farming and dairy interests and his activities along
those lines are now claiming the greater part of his time and attention. He has
become the owner of a valuable property, well improved, and his realty
possessions are the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy and
thrift. He was born near Montreal, Canada, December 2, 1877, a son of Joseph and
Angeline La Framboise, who in 1879 became residents of Crookston, Minnesota,
where the mother passed away. The father came to Yakima county in 1904 and here
spent his remaining days, his death occurring October 18, 1915. He purchased
twenty acres of land on the Moxee and devoted his attention to farming.

Antoine La Framboise acquired a public school education in Minnesota, having
been but two years of age when taken by his parents to that state. There he
resided until twenty-one years of age, when he left home and made his way to
Yakima county, where he arrived on the 12th of April, 1898. He located on the
Moxee and, having previously learned the blacksmith's trade, entered the employ
of the Moxee Company, for which he worked at blacksmithing for seven years. He
then opened a shop of his own, which he has since conducted. He has also become
interested in agricultural pursuits and dairying, purchasing first seven acres
of land in 1903. In 1912 he bought another tract of thirteen acres and in 1915
added twelve acres more to his possessions, while in 1917 he became owner of
thirteen acres, making forty-five acres in all. His farm is devoted to hay and
the production of the crops best adapted to soil and climate and in addition he
has some good stock and is conducting a profitable dairy business. He has built
a fine home upon his place and has a well improved property. His success is well
deserved, as it has all come to him through his perseverance and industry.

On the 1st of May, 1903, Mr. La Framboise was married to Miss Eugenie
Lebissoniere, a native of Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, and their children are:
Philip, Dolores, Leon and two who died in infancy. The parents are members of
the Holy Rosary Catholic church of Moxee and Mr. La Framboise is identified with
the Knights of Columbus and the Modern Woodmen of America. His political
endorsement is given to the republican party.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.