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SALVADOR MAURO
Identified with the business
interests of the town of Mossdale, San Joaquin County, Salvador Mauro, in
partnership with Charles Abersold, owns and operates
a garage and store on the Lincoln Highway, both young men being expert
machinists and in consequence doing a successful business in their line. Salvador Mauro was born in the province of
Cosenza, Italy, June 25, 1893 a son of Charles and Teresa Mauro, both natives
of Italy. The father, Charles Mauro, was
a shoemaker in his native country who came to Lathrop,
San Joaquin County, in 1894 where he followed his trade successfully and also
owned profitable vegetable gardens near Lathrop. In 1901 Salvador Mauro came to America with
his mother and joined the husband and father at Lathrop. When the farther passed away in 1908 the
vegetable gardens were sold. The mother
married again, and is now Mrs. Esposito, living at Lathrop.
Salvador Mauro received his
education in the schools of Lathrop and Mossdale; then learned the machinist
trade in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Tracy. In 1918 he became construction foreman on the
Western Pacific Railroad, on the Stockton Division, and was occupied for
eighteen months in this capacity; later Mr. Mauro was employed as an expert
machinist on the Holt caterpillar tractors in the vicinity of Lathrop and
Manteca. In 1918 in partnership with Charles
Abersold, he opened a garage on the Lincoln Highway
where they furnish gas and oils and do all kinds of automobile repairing in the
most satisfactory manner and are meeting with well-deserved success.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1607. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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