This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JEFFERDS, Mc MAHON , SHEAN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12090 Message Board Post: Hello everyone, This is a biography of a well-known Chautauqua businessman named Lamont Jefferds.This information could interest any- one else studying this family. The biography comes from "History of Chautauqua County, New York and it's people", by John Downs & Fenwick Hedley. Published in 1921. **************************************************************** Lamont Allen Jefferds, a prominent figure in the industrial life of Brocton, Chautauqua County , N.Y. , where he has been engaged in the manu- facture of furniture for a number of years, is a native of Randolph, Cattaraugus county N.Y. , where his birth occurred Nov 7 , 1878, a son of Owel and Emma ( Hard- ing) Jefferds, his parents now making their home in New York City, where the elder Mr. Jefferds is the Assistant cashier of the Seaboard National Bank. Lamont Jefferds passed his childhood at his native place and there attended the local public schools for a time. When his parents removed to New York City he accompanied them and attended the public schools of the Metropolis until he was sent to the Chamberlain Institute at Randolph, N.Y. After completing his gen- eral education at the latter institution, he entered the New York Commercial School of New York City, where he was prepared for a career in business. He then entered the employ of the New York Telephone Com- pany, where he worked in a clerical capacity for five years, and was then given a position in the Seaboard National Bank in which his father was an officer. There he remained for another five years, and then became associated with the Farish Stafford Company, where he was employed for six years longer. At the end of that period, having gained a wide knowledge of business methods generally and of banking in particular, he left New York City and retuned to his native place, where he took a position in the Randolph Bank. His next asso- tiation was with the departement store of T.E. Adams Company at Randolph, where he was connected with the retail department for two years, after which he entered the services of Randolph furniture Works as assist- ant to the Secretary-Treasurer. After three years spent there in learning the business of manufacturing furni- ture, Mr. Jefferds was ordered the position of Assistant Manager of the factory the Brocton Furniture Com- pany of Brocton, N.Y. , and came to this place on Feb 1, 1916 to take up his new task. Since that time he has continued in that capacity and has done much to advance the interests of the of the important concern with which he is associated. He has made of himself of the greatest value to his employers, and everything points to a brilliant future for him in the line of business that he has chosen. Mr. Jefferds has always taken a public-spirited interest in the general life of the communities where he has dwelt , and is a conspicuous figure in the social circle of Broc- ton, he is a Republicain in politics and a Methodist in religious belief, attending the Methodist Episcopal church of Brocton. Lamont Allen Jefferds was united in marriage September 16 , 1907 , at Randolph, N.Y. with Tillie M. Shean, of that town, a daughter of Michael W. And Bridget ( Mc- Mahon) Shean. Two children have been born of this union, as follows: Milton Lamont and Donald Francis. ************************************************************* P.S. Donald F Jefferds is my cousin's Dad and there are descendants on this branch.