The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 304

JOSEPH F. LAFRAMBOISE.

Canada's contribution to the Moxee region of Washington includes Joseph F.
Laframboise, who is now identified with farming interests in this state, He was
born near Montreal, Canada, December 9, 1872, a son of Joseph Laframboise, who
is mentioned in connection with the sketch of Antoine Laframboise, on another
page of this work.

Joseph F. Laframboise was largely educated in the public schools of Crookston,
Minnesota, for his parents removed to that state during his youthful days and
the period of his minority was there passed. He was thirty-two years of age when
in 1904 he came to Yakima county and for seven years he was employed by others,
acting as manager of hop ranches. In 1907 he invested his savings in thirty
acres of land on the Moxee and took up his abode upon that property in 1911. He
has built a pleasant residence and good barns and outbuildings and now has a
well improved farm, upon which he raises hay and potatoes. He is also engaged in
raising graded Percheron horses for sale, and both branches of his business are
bringing to him substantial financial returns.

In 1898 Mr. Laframboise was married to Miss Rose Alva Delorme, a native of
Canada, who in her early girlhood went with her parents to Minnesota, where she
formed the acquaintance of Mr. Laframboise, who sought her hand in marriage.
Their children are: Aram, who was a member of the United States army and was
honorably discharged at the close of the World's war; Armand, who is working in
the shipyards as a representative of the United States army; one who died in
infancy; and Eliane.

The parents and children are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church of
Moxee, and in politics Mr. Laframboise is a republican where national questions
and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent ballot,
considering the capability of a candidate rather than his party ties. He has
ever been ready and willing to aid in any movement for the public good and
cooperates in many well defined plans for the progress and upbuilding of the
section in which he has now lived for fourteen years. He has brought his farm
under a high state of cultivation and the many improvements which he has added
thereto constitute it one of the valuable properties of the district.

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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.