Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Raymond, Mattice 1862 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

MATTICE RAYMOND.

    Mattice Raymond, a well-known building contractor at Sleepy Eye, this
county, is a native of Canada, but has been a patriotic citizen of the United
States since 1879. He was born at Montreal on March 8, 1862, son of Louis and
Elizabeth (Embark) Raymond, both natives of Canada, who spent their lives in the
Dominion. They were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are now living,
the subject of this sketch being the only one, however, who is living in the
United States.

    Mattice Raymond received his education in the schools of Montreal and was
trained to the carpenter's trade. In 1879 he crossed the border into Michigan
and for three years was engaged in carpenter work in and about the Calumet
mines. He then, in the latter part of 1881, came to Minnesota and settled at
Sleepy Eye, where for several years he was employed as a carpenter by the firm
of Miller & Offerman. In 1885 Mr. Raymond married and started as a building
contractor on his own account and for several years was successfully engaged in
that business at Sleepy Eye. He then moved to Courtland, over the line in
Nicollet county, where he operated a carpenter shop and wagon shop for four
years, at the end of which time he moved to Sanborn, in Redwood county, where he
followed the same line of business for three years, after which he returned to
Sleepy Eye and for several years was engaged in general carpentering and
wagon-blacksmithing, later selling his wagon shop and thereafter devoting his
whole time to building. In 1907 he went to California, seeking betterment of his
health in a change of climate, and for two years worked at San Francisco. Much
improved in health he then returned to Sleepy Eye and resumed his contracting
business and has since then been quite successfully engaged in that line in that
city.

     In 1885 Mattice Raymond was united in marriage to Mary McRae, daughter of
J. D. McRae and wife, and to this union eight children have been born, six of
whom are living, Harry, who married Elsie Essig and has two children, and Ethel,
Arthur, Alice, Everett and Elizabeth. Air. Raymond is an "independent" voter. He
is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a past noble grand of that
order, and is also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, in the affairs of
which organizations he takes a warm interest.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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