Sacramento County
Biographies
MANUEL
JOAQUIN AZEVEDO
M. J. AZEVEDO, proprietor of the Eagle Winery, Sacramento, is a native of the Azores Islands, born February 21, 1837, his parents being J. A. and Orsa Marrianna Azevedo. He attended school there, and was reared to farm life. In 1854, at the age of seventeen, he came to California around Cape Horn, and landed at San Francisco, January 20, 1854. He went to Butte County, and mined successfully on Butte Creek. In 1861 he came to the Sacramento Valley, and located on a farm opposite Freeport, where he engaged in ranching until 1872. He then went back to the old country, and remained there until 1888, when he returned to Sacramento. The firm of Azevedo & Co., was organized in April, 1889, and purchased the Eagle Winery. This winery is an extensive one, and has a distillery in connection. The finest wines and brandies are turned out here, and the product of the winery has a high reputation. It is the only retail winery in Sacramento. Mr. Azevedo was married while in the old country, to Miss Maria Adelaide Azevedo. They have four children, viz: John M., Mary A., Frank A., and John A. Mr. Azevedo is an active, enterprising man, genial and courteous in disposition, and just the kind of a man to push the Eagle Winery to the front.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 759. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.