Alameda-Santa Clara-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Arbios, Jean 1832 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JEAN ARBIOS, a farmer and vineyardist nr [sic] Pleasanton, was born July 4,
1832, in Eysus, Basses-Pyrenees, France, where he was reared and educated, and
brought up on a farm. His parents were Joseph and Jeanne Maria (Laroude) Arbios,
natives also of France. The father died in 1865 and the mother in 1885. Mr.
Arbios came to America in 1864, landing in New York, and soon afterward came by
way of Panama to this State, and was employed at farm labor for a time near San
Francisco; next he was at the Almaden quicksilver mines for a year as a butcher;
then he was engaged in mining until 1867 at Boise Mines, Idaho; then he was
employed in conducting, a dairy for five years in Marin County, this State; in
1872 he went to Sunol, and finally he located upon his present place, a mile and
a half south of Pleasanton, on a farm of thirty-three acres, eight acres of
which is in vineyard. He also owns 160 acres of pasture land eight miles
southeast of Sunol. He was married in France, February 18, 1857, to Miss
Genevieve Lalanne, a native of Lurbe, Basses-Pyrenees, France. Three of their
children: Joseph, Mary J. and John P. were born in France; and the other three,
Edward, Theresa and Harry, were born here in California. Mr. Arbios became a
naturalized citizen in 1881, at San Francisco.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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