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GIACOMO FREGGIARO
A successful California rancher
whose progressive enterprise and substantial and profitable results speak well
for his industry and thrift is Giacomo Freggiaro, who owns about twenty choice acres
on the Waterloo Road, nine miles northeast of Stockton. He came to the Waterloo district in 1915, and
during the intervening years he has never regretted his choice of a permanent
home.
He was born at Alessandria, Italy,
on June 13, 1885, the son of Angelo Freggiaro, who had married Miss Angela Porta; they are still living, being respectively
sixty-seven and sixty-five years of age.
They had five children: Pete and
Giacomo, both on the Freggiaro farm, Maria, Bambina and Rosie.
Giacomo attended the grammar school
of his native Italian district, and when only sixteen years of age had had his
ambition aroused to leave both the comforts of home and the attractions of his
country to cross the wide ocean in hope of finding here still more enhancing prospects. On reaching San Francisco, he made his way to
Vallejo, where he worked for a short time in gardens; and then he moved over to
San Mateo and being better acquainted with California conditions, found no
difficulty in getting first-class garden work there. At the end of a year he went to Redding and
put in a year in that locality, following mining in Shasta County; but,
returning to San Mateo, he had a store for a year. Selling out he went to Truckee and packed ice
for the winter. He next worked for the
Western Pacific Railroad, but having the misfortune to get his leg broken, he
returned to Truckee and for seven years continued in the ice business. He once more tried gold mining for two years,
near Placerville, and after that sold vegetables in San Francisco for a year;
and during the World’s Fair, he worked for six months at the carpenter trade.
On June 8, 1914, Mr. Freggiaro was
married to Miss Theresa Cabrio, who came from the
same district in Italy in which he had first seen the light, and was a daughter
of Vincenzio and Anosiata (Biglieri) Cabrio. Miss Cabrio had
come out to California the previous year.
They are the parents of two children, Angelo and Italo. After his marriage Mr. Freggiaro came to the
place where he now resides and bought twenty acres of the old Dodge ranch,
considered by experts very choice San Joaquin County land, devoted to cherries,
peaches and grapes; and amid these well-laden trees, he has lately erected a
fine bungalow. He belongs to the Giardenieri Lodge of Stockton; he enjoys the esteem of all
who know him.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1591. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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