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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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476 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. vania Court House and South Anna; engagements in the Shenandoah Valley under Early; at Winchester most of the time until the close of the war, being in the battle-field of the army of Northern Virginia. He was surrendered by Lee to Grant at Appomattox. After the war Judge Gregory resumed the study of law, at the same time conducting a lumber yard for three years, in the county of Charles City. In 1868 he came to California, locating at Vallejo, where he taught school six months, and in 1869 commenced the practice of law. In 1871-72 he was City Attorney and City Clerk; in 1873 he was elected County Judge, and in 1877 re-elected; in 1879 he was elected Superior Judge, and held that position five years. For the past five years he has been engaged in the practice of law at Fairfield, his residence being at Suisun. , Judge Gregory was married, in 1872, to Miss Evelyn T., danghter of Admiral Thomas T. Craven, and they have three children: John M., Jr., born in 1875; Thomas T. C., in 1878, and Trnsten in 1888. Judge Gregory is a member of Vallejo Lodge, 1. O. O. F,, and of the A. 0. U. W. =< SoS eee Ls of the terra-cotta department of the Union Pressed Brick and Terra Cotta Company ot San Francisco, whose works are situated at Vallejo, was born in Antwerp, Belgium, io 1843, educated there at the Royal Academy to the age of fifteen years, and then three years in the art school at Paris named Ecole de Medicins, where he graduated in 1859 in the art of clay modeling. In further pursuits of his studies in this direction he eagaged as a pupil of the celebrated sculptor Carpeanx, and learned the art of marble sculpture; and at the same time he entered the Ecole de Beanx Artes, where he obtained the second prize in the class of 1866, for inodeling. After his graduation he passed three years in Holland, Belgium, HAY orto LE JEUNE, superintendent Germany, Algiers and other parts of Europe, engaged in his profession as a modeler. His service in Algeria was for the French government, in cutting statues for the cathedral at Algiers. After this he went to Brussels, Belgium, and engaged at first in modeling fur the terra-cotta works, and, finding here a permanent direction for his talents and art education, he took up the study of the chemistry of various clays, their glazes and manufacture, not oaly in ordinary terra-cotta work, bnt also in artistic ceramics as well. He learned fully the manufacture of the Limoges Sevres porcelains. In 1871 Mr. Le Jeune came to the United States and first located at Chicago, where for some time he was engaged in making marble busts, portraits, statues, etc. A terra-cotta factory had been started in Chicago a short time before bis arrival there, which had failed trom the lack of experience on the part of those operating it. In 1872 Mr. Le Jeune was employed to take charge of these works, which he re-established on a practical basis, and he remained in charge there for about sixteen years, and when he left them there were empluyed there about 600 men. The work turned out by this factory was so satisfactory that all the magnificent buildings erected in Chicago during the past ten years have been ornamented by this terra-cotta work, which has grown in favor all over the United States. In the development of this great industry in Chicago and the East generally, Mr. Le Jeune had to overcome the prejudices of architects and builders who were wedded to their old-fashioned methods. Having induced some of the most advanced owners and architects to adopt the latter artist’s ornamentation, it was not long before that method became general. At first architects and owners required him to imitate, in color and construction of terra cotta, the previously used iron, stone, galvanizediron, and even wood colors and appearance; but soon the intrinsic value of the terra cotta caused them to imitate it by painting their other materials in terra-cotta colors, which they still do where they use wood or galvanized iron.