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JAMES S. TRIOLO
In a life of well-directed business
activity, resulting in success, James S. Triolo has become well known as a
produce shipper of San Joaquin County. A
native of Illinois, he was born in Chicago, October 12, 1883, and at the early
age of fourteen began working in the produce business in Chicago, packing for
the firm of Porter Bros. Company on South Water Street. His father was a large importer of Palermo,
Sicily, and when James was seventeen years old he went to that city and worked
for his father for three years, packing and shipping lemons and oranges. In 1902 he came to California, accompanied by
his father and a brother, and for three years was associated with them in the
Ontario district of southern California, packing and shipping oranges and
lemons. At the end of three years he
removed to San Francisco and engaged in the commission business until 1912,
when he settled in Stockton and established his own business. He represents White Bros. & Crum of Salt
Lake City; Dawson Bros. Company of Denver, Colorado. He buys wine grapes for Descalzie
Company of Pittsburgh, also for L. Gallucci Company,
a large eastern firm, and for Shafton & Company
of Chicago, buying all kinds of produce direct from the grower and paying cash
for same and shipping over 1,000 carloads yearly from Stockton and
vicinity. He maintains offices in
Sacramento, Walnut Grove and Turlock. He
is an ardent booster for San Joaquin County, which he considers the richest and
most productive county in the world, and which he believes to be only at the
threshold of its productivity and prosperity.
The marriage of Mr. Triolo united
him with Miss Ada Crowley, a native of Wisconsin, whose father is a prominent
lumberman of that state, and they are the parents of two children, James S.,
Jr., and Beatrice E. Mr. Triolo is a
member of Westgate Lodge No. 335, F. & A. M., of Los Angeles, Pyramid No.
3, Sciots, of Sacramento, and the Sacramento Lodge of Elks. He is eminently public-spirited in all
matters that affect the general welfare, and is held in the highest esteem.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1164. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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