Merced-Monterey-Stanislaus County CA Archives Biographies.....Azevedo, John V. 1868 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

JOHN V. AZEVEDO

   A successful merchant, John V. Azevedo commands the respect and esteem of all
who have witnessed his steady progress up the ladder of success since he located
in Gustine in 1907. He had located in the State twenty years earlier, having
emigrated from St. George, in the Azores Islands, where he was born on March 14,
1868, settling first in Monterey. He is the son of Viresimo Jose and Anna
(Candada) Azevedo, both natives of St. George, where the father spent his entire
life as a farm laborer. There were eight children in this family, namely:
Manuel; a second child, died in infancy; John V., our subject; Mary, deceased;
Jose V., deceased; Jose V., resides in Patterson, Cal.; Rose, deceased; and
Antone. The father passed away at St. George at the age of seventy years, the
mother now makes her home with John V. at Gustine, aged eighty-three years.

   John V. Azevedo had little chance of obtaining an education. He left home at
the age of nineteen and came to the United States, landing in Boston, Mass., and
came direct to California and stopped at Monterey, where he soon found work on a
dairy ranch in that vicinity and continued for four years; then he rented a farm
of 400 acres and, with his brother Manuel, conducted a dairy of fifty cows for
the next five years at San Juan. When the brothers divided the herd our subject
came to Crow's Landing in the San Joaquin Valley, and with his brother Joseph
and a cousin, John Borba, conducted a dairy for two years. He came to Merced
County in 1901 and bought a farm of 155 acres where he ran a dairy six years,
being one of the pioneer Portuguese settlers in this section. When Gustine was
laid out as a town he purchased two lots on which he erected the West Side Store
and he carries a full line of groceries, dry goods, shoes, hardware, grain and
mill feed, some farm machinery and household furniture. Since then he has bought
considerable real estate in Gustine.

   At Salinas, on February 11, 1898, Mr. Azevedo was married to Miss Ida
Victorina Azevedo, born at Sausalito, daughter of Manuel V. and Mary (Cunha)
Azevedo, both natives of St. George, Azores Islands. Her father, Manuel V.
Azevedo, came to California at the age of fourteen years on a whaling vessel. He
was married in Sausalito, where he engaged in the dairy business and also
followed the carpenter's trade; both parents are now living in Newman. There
were nine children in this family; Angeline, Manuel, Mary, Ida (the wife of our
subject), Ellen, Anna and Marianna (twins), Rosa, and the ninth child (died in
infancy). Mr. and Mrs. Azevedo have had four children: Manuel; Mamie, now Mrs.
Antone S. Balthazer; Anna, deceased; and John. The son Manuel married Miss
Leonora Cardoza and they had one son, Adolph, who died; the daughter, Mamie,
Mrs. Balthazer, has one daughter, Geraldine. Mr. Azevedo votes the Republican
ticket. Fraternally, he is a member of the U. P. E. C, of Gustine, and Past
President of the I. D. E. S. Lodge of Gustine, having been elected president
when the lodge was organized.


Additional Comments:
From:

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

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925

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