San Joaquin County Biographies
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ANGELO M. FOPPIANO
A wide-awake, progressive business man representing one of the prosperous business establishments of Stockton, is Angelo M. Foppiano, the senior member of the firm of the Foppiano & Solari Wholesale Fruit & Produce Company of Stockton, doing business at 136 North El Dorado Street. He was born in the same city on August 30, 1887, the son of Matthew and Margaret Foppiano, both natives of Italy, the former being now deceased. Mr. Foppiano early settled in Stockton, and for a while he was with the Wagner Leather Company, and later he was park superintendent. Then he farmed on the Weber Tract, and he was also head gardener at Stockton cemetery for fourteen years. He passed away in 1911, leaving an enviable record; and he is now survived by a devoted widow and four children: Angelo M., the subject of this review; David, Mrs. Norma Earl, and Mrs. Louisa Harvey.
Angelo attended the Washington School, and he also went to the County school on Linden Road, then to the El Dorado School, and after that to the Brothers' Catholic School. He followed various occupations as a young man on grain farms, in vineyards and lumber camps, and on the Stockton Railroad, and then he was a gardener at the cemetery and clerk for the Horan Furniture Company. In 1910, he formed a partnership with Emil Devincenzi and opened a retail fruit and produce store, under the name of the Avenue Fruit & Produce Company, at 536 East Weber Avenue; and when his partner died, he formed a partnership with J.J. Solari, and together they continued there for four years. Then they sold the business, and in 1914 opened a wholesale fruit and produce company; and later P. Pezzi and C. Arata became partners in the same. The firm owns the Auditorium Building, a four-story brick structure on North El Dorado Street, one of the old landmarks of Stockton; and such has been the progress of this well-known wholesale establishment that both Mr. Foppiano and those associated with him may well be regarded as among the rising young business men of the city. He is the outside salesman for his firm, and he belongs to the Commercial Travelers Association.
Mr. Foppiano, in 1910, married, at Stockton, Miss Tessie Gagliardo, a native daughter, born in Calaveras County; and they have three children: Thelma, Evelyne and Arlene. Mr. Foppiano belongs to Stockton Lodge No. 218 of the Elks, and to the Iroquois Tribe of the Red Men.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN 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
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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