Son of Jean Baptiste and Marie Louise Mesplait Bequette, married on January 29, 1799 in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
In 1852, Col. Bequette brought his family across the plains with ox-teams to California and was for a short time in general merchandise trade in Sacramento, but being a man of unusual ability he was soon called to a more important field of action. In 1853 he went to San Francisco to enter upon his duties a receiver of public money and pension agent under appointment by President Franklin Pierce, and these offices he filled through the administration of President Buchanan.
In 1859 moving with his family to Visalia, Tulare county, he there became the owner of land and established himself as a breeder of cattle and horses. He served the county as its treasurer and as deputy recorder and passed away in December, 1879. His wife was Elizabeth P. Dodge, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of ex-Governor Dodge of Wisconsin, afterward the first United States senator from that state and a sister of Hon. A. C. Dodge, United States senator from Iowa, the father and son serving in the United States senate at the same time. Col. Bequette was a native of Missouri.
Following are the names of the children of Paschal and Elizabeth P. (Dodge) Bequette: Lewis L., Mary L., Christina A., Philip, Mrs. N. O. Bradley, Mrs. S. G. Patrick, Frank R., and Paschal, Jr.
(Transcribed from "History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches History" By Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, P456.)
In 1852, Col. Bequette brought his family across the plains with ox-teams to California and was for a short time in general merchandise trade in Sacramento, but being a man of unusual ability he was soon called to a more important field of action. In 1853 he went to San Francisco to enter upon his duties a receiver of public money and pension agent under appointment by President Franklin Pierce, and these offices he filled through the administration of President Buchanan.
In 1859 moving with his family to Visalia, Tulare county, he there became the owner of land and established himself as a breeder of cattle and horses. He served the county as its treasurer and as deputy recorder and passed away in December, 1879. His wife was Elizabeth P. Dodge, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of ex-Governor Dodge of Wisconsin, afterward the first United States senator from that state and a sister of Hon. A. C. Dodge, United States senator from Iowa, the father and son serving in the United States senate at the same time. Col. Bequette was a native of Missouri.
Following are the names of the children of Paschal and Elizabeth P. (Dodge) Bequette: Lewis L., Mary L., Christina A., Philip, Mrs. N. O. Bradley, Mrs. S. G. Patrick, Frank R., and Paschal, Jr.
(Transcribed from "History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches History" By Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, P456.)
Son of Jean Baptiste and Marie Louise Mesplait Bequette, married on January 29, 1799 in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.
In 1852, Col. Bequette brought his family across the plains with ox-teams to California and was for a short time in general merchandise trade in Sacramento, but being a man of unusual ability he was soon called to a more important field of action. In 1853 he went to San Francisco to enter upon his duties a receiver of public money and pension agent under appointment by President Franklin Pierce, and these offices he filled through the administration of President Buchanan.
In 1859 moving with his family to Visalia, Tulare county, he there became the owner of land and established himself as a breeder of cattle and horses. He served the county as its treasurer and as deputy recorder and passed away in December, 1879. His wife was Elizabeth P. Dodge, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of ex-Governor Dodge of Wisconsin, afterward the first United States senator from that state and a sister of Hon. A. C. Dodge, United States senator from Iowa, the father and son serving in the United States senate at the same time. Col. Bequette was a native of Missouri.
Following are the names of the children of Paschal and Elizabeth P. (Dodge) Bequette: Lewis L., Mary L., Christina A., Philip, Mrs. N. O. Bradley, Mrs. S. G. Patrick, Frank R., and Paschal, Jr.
(Transcribed from "History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches History" By Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, P456.)
In 1852, Col. Bequette brought his family across the plains with ox-teams to California and was for a short time in general merchandise trade in Sacramento, but being a man of unusual ability he was soon called to a more important field of action. In 1853 he went to San Francisco to enter upon his duties a receiver of public money and pension agent under appointment by President Franklin Pierce, and these offices he filled through the administration of President Buchanan.
In 1859 moving with his family to Visalia, Tulare county, he there became the owner of land and established himself as a breeder of cattle and horses. He served the county as its treasurer and as deputy recorder and passed away in December, 1879. His wife was Elizabeth P. Dodge, a native of Wisconsin, and a daughter of ex-Governor Dodge of Wisconsin, afterward the first United States senator from that state and a sister of Hon. A. C. Dodge, United States senator from Iowa, the father and son serving in the United States senate at the same time. Col. Bequette was a native of Missouri.
Following are the names of the children of Paschal and Elizabeth P. (Dodge) Bequette: Lewis L., Mary L., Christina A., Philip, Mrs. N. O. Bradley, Mrs. S. G. Patrick, Frank R., and Paschal, Jr.
(Transcribed from "History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches History" By Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, P456.)
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