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DAVID RISSO
A member of the firm of Risso &
Rossi, proprietors of a thriving grocery business at 2309 North California
Street, Stockton, David Risso is one of the city’s enterprising young
businessmen. He was born at Stockton,
February 6, 1893, the son of Joseph and Mary (Risso) Risso, both born in the
vicinity of Genoa, Italy; the father is deceased, but Mrs. Risso is still
living; they came to Stockton many years ago and Joseph Risso was engaged in
vegetable raising with others in the Italian
Gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Risso were the
parents of five living children: Louis
A., John, David, Mrs. Louisa Osborn, and Victor.
While gaining his education, David
Risso worked after school hours as a delivery boy on a milk route, and when old
enough took up ranch work on the Smith ranch on the Lower Sacramento Road. Later he worked in the wholesale store of
Foppiano & Solari, also with the Hobbs-Parsons Company, and then was fruit
buyer for this district for the L. Scatina Company of
Oakland. During the War Mr. Risso
trained at Camp Lewis, serving for eleven months, but owing to an injury did
not see active service in France. He was
in the 362nd Infantry, 91st Division, and received his
discharge at the Presidio, San Francisco.
Previous to his war service, when only seventeen years old, he had
acquired an interest in a grocery store on North California Street, and after
his return from the Army, with a partner, P. J. Perazo,
he opened up another grocery on this street, but later Mr. Perazo
sold his interest, and the present firm is Risso & Rossi, and they have
built up a thriving business that is steadily increasing. Mr. Risso is also the owner of the American
Fruit Market at 537 East Weber Avenue.
His marriage united him with Miss Eugenia Rossi, and they have a son,
David Risso, Jr. Mr. Risso keeps up his
war associations by membership in Karl Ross Post, American Legion.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1593. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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