Name/Title
Book, CompositionEntry/Object ID
2008.015.0005Scope and Content
A composition book used by James A. Lamont at the Collegiate Institute in Benicia in 1862. The Collegiate Institute was a predecessor of St. Augustine's College. It was the first law school in California. The school was started by C.J. Flatt about 1858. He bought the school from Rev. Charles M. Blake who had run a boys boarding school on the same site. He sold the property in 1867 to the American Protestant Episcopal Church who established The Missionary College of St. Augustine.
The book seems to have been used for a surveying class.
Solano County Biographies
JAMES A. LAMONT
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm
born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1842, July 9th, where he resided for the first six years of his life, after which he was taken by his parents to Little Rock, Arkansas, and remained there two years, thence moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and afterward to Boone county, Kentucky, where he resided for five years. Came
to this county with his parents in 1854, where he engaged in farming for several years. In 1865 Mr. Lamont graduated at the Benicia College and Law School, and was admitted to the bar, practiced in Napa and Grass Valley, Nevada county, for
a year and a half, when he returned to Nashville, to wind up the estate of his parents, remaining there three years. In 1869 he returned, and in September of the following year purchased the interest of J. E. Williston, and became a partner in the firm of Egery & Lamont. He married, in San Francisco, January
17, 1878, Miss Sara D. Barry, a native of New York, who was born in December, 1853, by whom he has one son, James Barry.
History of Solano County, San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley & Co., East
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 369-370Collection
Benicia School Collection
