Migrated to CA USA, 1890 from NB Canada.... worked his way west via laboring for the Union Pacific RR.... barbershop owner.... communicant at St Bernards RCCh, Eureka CA USA.... could read/write, (1900 USA Census)

From the voter rolls, 1896 : "Henry James Laverty, age 31 years, 5'7", Barber, Blue Lake Precinct, light complexion, grey eyes, dark hair, from New Brunswick, but born of American parents".

From grandson Gerald Clayton Laverty: " Henry James Laverty died of a ceberal hemorrage, at home, September 25, 1953. He was 87 years old at death and had been a normally healty person. He was a barber all his life. He owned a shop in Blue Lake, CA that burned down (the chair was saved). In Eureka, he ran a shop on 2nd St (no longer in existence) and cut hair until he was almost 80. He trained pheasant and duck hunting dogs, having 4 kennels in the backyard of the home on Hilsdale St in Eureka, where he resided since about 1906. He liked to hunt birds and visited card casinos to "kibitz".