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GEORGE E. FRIOUX
Numbered among the younger members
of the San Joaquin County bar, where he is meeting with success in the practice
of law, George E. Frioux is a descendant of one of California’s pioneer
families. His parents are Louis and
Katherine (Waters) Frioux, both natives of Calaveras County. The father, who is now deceased, came from a
pioneer French family, and for many years he followed mining, teaming and stage
driving in the Mother Lode country. Mrs.
Frioux’s father, James Waters, is still living in
Calaveras County at the age of eighty-eight.
A native of Boston, born there in 1833, he left his home in 1849, coming
around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, and landing at San Francisco early in
1850, and he has now been a resident of Calaveras County for more than seventy
years.
George E. Frioux was born at San
Andreas, California, May 7, 1895, and was educated in the schools of San
Andreas and Mokelumne Hill. In 1912 he
received a teacher’s certificate and for three years he was engaged in teaching
in Calaveras County; he was also deputy treasurer and tax collector of
Calaveras County for two and a half years.
During this time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in
September, 1917. Two months later he
entered the service of his country, and trained at Camp Lewis with the famous
91st Division. He was
attached to the Sanitary Unit and went overseas with this contingent, serving
with the U. S. forces until July, 1919, when he returned to San Francisco and
received his discharge at the Presidio.
Looking about for a location he selected Stockton, opened his office in
the Yosemite Building on January 1, 1920, where he is engaged in the general
practice of law.
On June 3, 1922, Mr. Frioux was
united in marriage with Miss Nina Caldwell, a native of Kentville,
Nova Scotia. He has entered heartily
into the activities of Stockton and is a member of the San Joaquin County Bar
Association, Karl Ross Post, American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars;
and is also a member of San Andreas Parlor, N. S. G. W. in which he is a past
president, and belongs to the Anteros Club.
He is president of the Calaveras Society of San Joaquin County.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
868. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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