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ANGELO M. FOPPIANO
A wide-awake, progressive
businessman representing one of the prosperous business establishments of
Stockton is Angelo M. Foppiano, the senior member of the firm of the Foppiano
& Solari Wholesale Fruit & Produce Company of Stockton, doing business
at 136 North El Dorado Street. He was
born in the same city on August 30, 1887, the son of Matthew and Margaret
Foppiano, both natives of Italy, the former now being deceased. Mr. Foppiano early settled in Stockton, and
for awhile he was with the Wagner Leather Company, and later he was park
superintendent. Then he farmed on the Weber Tract, and he was also head
gardener at Stockton Cemetery for fourteen years. He passed away in 1911, leaving an enviable
record; and he is now survived by a devoted widow and four children: Angelo M., the subject of this review, David,
Mrs. Norma Earl, and Mrs. Louisa Harvey.
Angelo attended the Washington
School, and he also went to the County school on Linden Road, then to the El
Dorado School, and after that to the Brothers’ Catholic School. He followed various occupations as a young
man on grain farms, in vineyards and lumber camps, and on the Stockton
Railroad, and then he was gardener at the cemetery and clerk for the Horan
Furniture Company. In 1910 he formed a
partnership with Emil Devincenzi and opened a retail
fruit and produce store under the name of the Avenue Fruit and Produce Company
at 536 East Weber Avenue; and when his partner died, he formed a partnership
with J. J. Solari and together they continued for four years. Then they sold the business, and in 1914
opened a wholesale fruit and produce company; and later P. Pezzi
and C. Arata became partners in the same. The firm owns the Auditorium Building, a
four-story brick structure on North El Dorado Street, one of the old landmarks
of Stockton; and such has been the progress of this well-known wholesale
establishment that both Mr. Foppiano and those associated with him may well be
regarded as among the rising young businessmen of the city. He is the outside salesman for his firm, and
he belongs to the Commercial Travelers Association.
Mr. Foppiano in 1910 married at
Stockton, Miss Tessie Gagliardo, a native daughter,
born in Calaveras County; and they have three children: Thelma, Evelyne,
and Arlene. Mr. Foppiano belongs to
Stockton Lodge No. 218 of the Elks, and to the Iroquois Tribe of Red Men.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1595. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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