Emile
Hubert
Bourguignon
Born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Eliza (Prueing) Bourguignon
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Francois Emile Bourguignon
Died
at age 67
in San Jose, Santa Clara, California
Profile last modified
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Biography
Emile Bourguignon has Belgian origins.
Emile Hubert Bourguignon was born on March 9th, 1849 in Brussels, Belgium. He was the eldest child of Maximilian Bourguignon and Desirée Housoy. [1]
Emile attended a public school and at a young age was apprenticed to learn landscape gardening. [1]
He became a Belgian Grenadier at the age of eighteen and was promoted so sergeant just five years later. [1]
Migration to the US
Emile Bourguignon migrated from Belgium to United States of America.
- Upon leaving the army, he originally set up a business in Brussels, but became interested in the United States after their Centennial in 1876. He, and his wife, then travelled directly to California. [1]
- He settled in San Francisco originally, but moved to San Jose in 1879 and established a florist business. [1]
Family
- Emile was married twice. First in Belgium to Eliza Prueing. Their son Frank was born in 1877 in San Francisco and worked along side his father as a floriculturist until the age of twenty-eight.
- Later, while in San Jose, he married Miss Oraza Waltham of Nova Scotia. [1]
Emile passed away on August 2, 1916 "rich in the accomplishments of seventy-two worthwhile years, and also rich in friends and the esteem of his fellow-men..." [1]
Research Notes
According to the following record, Emile married a Victoire Joseph Vangysel in Brussels in 1872. Here, he is listed as having been born three years earlier than stated in History of Santa Clara County California and his birthplace being Roux-Miroir. He was living in La Hulpe at the time. [2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Sawyer, Eugene T.. History of Santa Clara County California. 1922. Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.. https://archive.org/details/historyofsantacl00sawy/page/n1101/mode/2up?q=Maximilian
- ↑ State archives in Belgium. Burgerlijke stand Huwelijksakten - Vlaams-Brabant en Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest: Gegevens van de akte nr. 156. https://search.arch.be/en/zoeken-naar-personen/zoekresultaat/weergave/akte/id/HUBRU_00519110_0
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to William Herman for creating Bourguignon-9 on July 14, 2013.
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