Sacramento County
Biographies
J. IGNATIUS
SILVA
J. IGNATIUS SILVA.--A native of the balmy Azores, who has made good in this the great Pacific commonwealth, is J. Ignatius Silva, who was born in 1885, and first came out to the United States and California in 1902. His father, M. I. Silva, had married Miss Mary Joseph Martin, and they followed our subject to the New World, arriving in Sacramento in 1907. Here they prospered, bettering their condition, and making the world better for their having lived and labored in it. Mr. Silva is dead, but Mrs. Silva is still living.
J. Ignatius Silva attended school in the Azores, and after reaching California, was engaged in various occupations. Then he worked in the wineries, and there learned both the cooper and the carpenter trade, following the latter by preference. In partnership with his two brothers, he managed a company which makes wine, about 54,000 gallons a year, buying the grapes, and selling for medicinal and sacramental purposes. The winery is located on Folsom Boulevard.
On January 3, 1923, Mr. Silva was united in marriage with Miss Helen Mary Azevedo, a native daughter of Sacramento County, and a daughter of J. Louis Azevedo, an old-time resident of Sacramento.
Mr. Silva is a Roman Catholic, and belongs to the Knights of Columbus, in which he is a Knight of the third degree. And first, last and all the time, he is a patriotic American.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 896.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.