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LOUIS ANDREW FREGGIARO
A native of sunny Italy who has made
good in the Golden State is Louis Andrew Freggiaro, who owns twenty acres of
fine land for orchard and vineyard purposes, situated nine miles northeast of
Stockton on the Waterloo Road along the Calaveras River. He was born at Alessandria, in Piedmont,
Italy, on October 15, 1880 and his parents were Augusto and Juditha
(Biglieri) Freggiaro. His father, a grocer in that country, lived
to be sixty-four years of age, and his mother is still alive there, at the age
of seventy. Ten children were born to this worthy couple, six sons and four
daughters: Giacomo;
Virginia; Guiseppe; Clemento;
Louis A., of subject; Guiseppina; Valentino; Louisa; Ernesta; and Amadeo.
Louis Andrew attended the excellent
grammar school of his home locality, and there received a good training so that
when he was seventeen years of age and ambitious to push out into the world, he
was ready to do so. As fond as he was of
his native country, he saw in distant California another sunny realm, and bidding
goodbye to Italy, he sailed for the United States. He was not long in reaching the Pacific
Coast, and he had the good fortune immediately to settle in Stockton where, for
four years, he worked in gardens. He
then went to San Francisco and worked for the Standard Oil Company for nine
months, when he engaged in the sale of fruit and vegetables at San Mateo for
two years, after which he was a chauffeur there for another two years. Returning to Italy, he married on September
1, 1906 Miss Katherina Ottone,
a native of Italy, and the daughter of Giovanni and Bianca Ottone. Her father was a farmer, and he had one other
child besides her, a son Armando. Mrs.
Freggiaro was also fortunate in enjoying an excellent
grammar school training, and when the happy couple came back to California, she
was able to be of much service to her husband.
Mr. Freggiaro worked for six years
for the Holden Drug Company on their farm ten miles from Stockton, on the Jack
Tone Road; and when he had rounded out that service to the entire satisfaction
of his employers, and had established a reputation such as anyone might envy
for both executive ability and fidelity, he rented forty acres of the Dodge
Ranch, taking a four year lease on it, which he devoted to the culture of
cherries, peaches and grapes. He also
bought twenty acres in the same vicinity for the growing of alfalfa, and now
has six acres given to cherries, four acres to peaches, two acres where he
grows only pears, and six acres mostly of grapes, with a few plum trees.
Three children gladden the home life
of Mr. and Mrs. Freggiaro. Aldo is the
eldest, Armenia the second and Lena the youngest of the interesting group. The family attends the Roman Catholic Church,
and Mr. Freggiaro is a member of the Giardenieri
Lodge of Stockton. He has recently
finished a fine new home on his attractive ranch, and there he and his family
reside, about one and one-half miles to the northwest of Waterloo.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1315-1316. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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