San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 12/30/2009
GEORGE E. FRIOUX
Numbered among the younger members of the San Joaquin County bar, where he is meeting with success in the practice of law, George E. Frioux is a descendant of one of California's pioneer families. His parents are Louis and Katherine (Waters) Frioux, both natives of Calaveras County. The father, who is now deceased, came from a pioneer French family, and for many years he followed mining, teaming and stage driving in the Mother Lode country. Mrs. Frioux's father, James Waters, is still living in Calaveras County at the age of eighty-eight. A native of Boston, born there in 1833, he left his home in 1849, coming around Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, and landing at San Francisco early in 1850, and he has now been a resident of Calaveras County for more than seventy years.
George E. Frioux was born at San Andreas, Cal., May 7, 1895, and was educated in the schools of San Andreas and Mokelumne Hill. In 1912 he received a teacher's certificate and for three years he was engaged in teaching in Calaveras County; he was also deputy treasurer and tax collector of Calaveras County for two and a half years. During this time he studied law and was admitted to the bar in September, 1917. Two months later he entered the service of his country, and trained at Camp Lewis with the famous 91st Division. He was attached to the Sanitary Unit and went overseas with this contingent, serving with the U.S. forces until July, 1919, when he returned to San Francisco and received his discharge at the Presidio. Looking about for a location he selected Stockton, opened his office in the Yosemite building on January 1, 1920, where he is engaged in the general practice of law.
On June 3, 1922, Mr. Frioux was united in marriage with Miss Nina Caldwell, a native of Kentville, Nova Scotia. He has entered heartily into the activities of Stockton and is a member of the San Joaquin County Bar Association, Karl Ross Post, American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars; and is also a member of San Andreas Parlor, N.S.G.W., in which he is a past president, and belongs to the Anteros Club. He is president of the Calaveras Society of San Joaquin County.
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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