Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Pomber, Juan 1836 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

JUAN POMBER, one of the well-known and highly respected citizens of Castroville,
is a native son of the soil, having been born at Monterey.

  His father, Louis Pomber, came to this country as one of the three survivors
of a party of 400 trappers, who left Canada for California, under the leadership
of Jared Smith. Mr. Pomber, Sr., was of French extraction and a brave,
aggressive and adventurous man. He made his way through southern California via
Kern and Tulare counties to San Jose and engaged for about two years in
ranching. He was of a mechanical turn of mind, an excellent stonemason and also
worked in wood. He was at Monterey as early as 1821, and resided there for
several years, and took part in the civil, local and military affairs of those
days. In 1823 he married Filomena, a daughter of Dolores Pico, and they had
thirteen children, of whom ten lived to maturity. Mr. Pomber manufactured carts
entirely of wood after the old primitive style of solid wooden wheels, and with
them did a freighting business. He died at Castroville, in 1864, and his wife in
the same place, in 1887.

  Juan, the subject of this sketch is one of the eldest of the family, and was
born at Monterey, August 13, 1836. For many years he engaged, with his father,
in building in Monterey, and erected many of the old Spanish adobe houses in
that city. In 1850 they moved out of Monterey to a ranch in the Pajaro valley,
where he remained until 1863, when he engaged in business at Castroville.

  Mr. Pomber married Miss Marie A. Boronda, a daughter of Jose Manuel Boronda,
at Castroville, in 1868, and ten children have been added to their family.

  Our subject is a highly esteemed citizen of California and is a prominent
business man of Castroville.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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