Merced County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 7/31/2009
JOSEPH CARDOZA
The Azores Islands have sent many of their inhabitants to America, and they have usually done so well and have sent back such glowing reports of their success that it was natural that as Joseph Cardoza was drawing towards manhood he should be fired with the ambition to seek that El Dorado where so many of his countrymen had gone. He was born December 27, 1888, in Terceira. His mother, Jane Lawrence Cardoza, had died at the age of twenty-five. His father, Antone, is still living at the age of sixty-eight. There were only his brother Manuel and sister Mary, so the ties to keep him at home were not strong and the year 1907 found him in Boston, Mass., and not long thereafter near Sacramento, Cal., where he found employment on a dairy farm at Freeport, on the Sacramento River. A year later he was in Los Banos, still working in the dairy business. Then he went into the business for himself, leased land and carried on five strings of cows. After eight years in company with his brother he was able to buy a ranch of 225 acres from M.M. Wood in 1918, and here he had 130 cows. Then he and his brother and a third partner, F.S. Pacheo, bought a second ranch of 140 acres near Los Banos, and ran a dairy on this place. He and his brother now own 295 acres. In the spring of 1922 he and his brother started into the dairy business again and they now have about seventy-five cows on the 225-acre ranch bought of Mr. Wood.
On June 6, 1922, Mr. Cardoza was married at San Francisco to Mary Augustino, born in Bedford, Mass., and daughter of Joseph and Margaret Augustino, natives of Flores of the Azores.
Mr. Cardoza is a director of the Los Banos branch of the Mercantile Trust Company of California and stock inspector for it. He is not identified with any political party, but votes for the man he thinks is best fitted for the office. Fraternally, he is a member of the U.P.E.C. and an ex-vice-president of the I.D.E.S. and belongs to the Eagles. He is a member of the Catholic Church.
History of
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925
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