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JOSEPH LOUIS GIROUX
GIROUX, JOSEPH LOUIS, Mining, Los Angeles, California, was born in Montreal, Canada, December 15, 1856, the son of Gidon Giroux and Mary (Frichette) Giroux.
Mr. Giroux married Phoebe Marcott at Kankakee, Illinois, October 17, 1893, and to them there have been born three children, Joseph, Louis and Roland Giroux. He is of French descent, member of one of the old families of Montreal, but has spent the greater part of his life in the United Sates.
His family having moved to Kankakee, Illinois, when he was a child, he received his education in the schools of that district. He first attended the country schools near Kankakee and later was a student in the schools of the city proper, leaving when he was twenty years of age.
Mr. Giroux began his mining career at Bingham Canyon, Utah, where he was for about two yeas, at the end of which time he went to Butte, Montana, and became associated with the W. A. Clark interests. He was in charge of these celebrated properties for about ten years. At the conclusion of the at period he was transferred to Jerome, Ariz., as General Manager of the famous United Verde Copper Co., and had charge of the property for about fifteen years.
In 1903, Mr. Giroux severed his connection with the Clark interests after twenty-five years’ service and went to the Cananea District, Sonora, Mexico. There he opened up the Sultana Mine, organizing the Giroux Consolidated Co., for the operation of this and other properties he controlled, including properties at Ely, Nev. The Sultana Mine, Mr. Giroux later sold to a syndicate.
In 1906, he became interested in the Bagdad Copper Co. of Arizona. He is the principal stockholder, in addition to directing its operations at Hillside, Ariz. He also is the largest stockholder in the Arizona & Nevada Copper Co. and the dominating factor in its affairs.
Mr. Giroux, as one of the practical mining men of the West, has been one of its great developers. Through his long experience he is regarded as one of the expert judges of ores and their handling. He has made mining a scientific study all during his career of more than thirty-five yeas and has attained an eminent place among the leaders of the business.
He has been a hard worker all his life and his mining business has been such as to prevent him from taking an active interest in political or other public matters, even had his inclinations been in that direction.
He has had no club or fraternal affiliations during the nine yeas he has been a resident of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 902,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2012 Joyce Rugeroni.
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