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ANGELO PIETRO MUZIO
Among
the most successful business men of Stockton is A. Pietro Muzio, whose steady
advancement toward an independent fortune was made step by step. He was born on a farm in the province of
Genoa, Italy, on March 8, 1869 and among other branches of his education
learned the baker’s trade. During 1888
he came to America, and locating in Stockton he secured work at his trade in
the French and Italian Bakery on South Hunter Street, where he worked for two
years; then to San Francisco where he worked for the Ligurio
Bakery, where he remained until 1893, when he took a trip back to his native
land, and while there married Miss Anestasia Gianelli, a sister of Joe Gianelli of Stockton. Returning to Stockton he was for the next
five years employed as a clerk in the grocery store of his brother-in-law, Joe
Gianelli. In 1898 Mr. Muzio purchased
the French and Italian Bakery on South Hunter Street, where he had first found
employment upon his arrival in Stockton.
For the following fourteen years he conducted his business there with
success, when he moved his bakery to his new block, which he had erected at 317
East Market Street, conducting it with increasing patronage for the next six
years, when he sold out and is now living retired from business cares. The real estate holdings of Mr. Muzio are so
extensive that his time is well taken up in looking after them; he has erected
two business blocks in Stockton; in 1910 he erected a three-story brick block
75 x 100 feet on East Market Street, adjoining the Joe Gianelli building; in
1912 he purchased the lot at 317 East Market Street, 41 by 103 feet, and upon
this site he erected a modern three-story brick block, known as the Muzio
Block, the first floor occupied by stores and the two upper stories devoted to
the Hotel Glenn. During 1921 Mr. Muzio
made another trip to Italy to visit his mother.
He is a member of the Stockton Italian Club and the Druids; he has also
been a member of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce for a number of years and has
done his share assisting all movements for the betterment and advancement of
Stockton. Mr. and Mrs. Muzio are the
parents of three children: John J. is
married and conducts a bakery business in Sonora, Antoinette and Antonio are students at St. Mary’s College in Oakland.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1611. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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