Los Angeles County
Biographies
AURELIO SANDOVAL
SANDOVAL, AURELIO, Fisheries,
Los Angeles, California, one of the greatest of Mexican born business men, was
born June 28, 1863, at Ures, Sonora,
Mexico, the son of Jose U. Sandoval and Beatriz Ortiz Sandoval. He married
Louise Parodi, June 4, 1906, at Los Angeles.
There are two children, by a former wife, Adela and Aurelia Sandoval.
Mr. Sandoval was taught in a private school at Guaymas, Sonora. Then he was apprenticed in business to his
father, himself one of the biggest merchants of his section. Later he was taken
in as a partner in his father’s numerous enterprises, which included wholesale
merchandising, banking and mining. In 1888, he formed the firm of
P. Sandoval & Co., with his brother, and opened a banking house at
Nogales, Sonora. He is still in that firm, and it is known throughout Mexico
and the United States as well as a financial institution of high credit and
great resources.
Then he obtained from the Mexican government one of the
most valuable grants ever given to one man, on condition of its full
development. This was the exclusive fishing right on the West Coast of Mexico
from Guaymas north to the mouth of the Colorado
River, and to all the water that surrounds the peninsula of Southern
California. This includes several thousand miles of sea coast. The entire coast
is extremely rich in sea food, such as oysters, lobsters and crabs, not to
mention the vast shoals of edible fish. Valuable pearl fisheries have been
found and are being worked. Los Angeles forms the best market for the sea food,
and to that city Mr. Sandoval removed in 1904.
He is a member of the California Club, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
30 August 2010.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 488, International
News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Marie Hassard .
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