Merced-San Joaquin County CA Archives Biographies.....Lagomarsino, Fred A. 1872 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

FRED A. LAGOMARSINO

   How the family represented by Fred A. Lagomarsino came to be established in
this country is an interesting story, showing the circumstances that have led
many to leave their native lands and seek their fortunes in the great West.
Antone Lagomarsino was a native of Italy; he was drafted into the Austrian army
but in order to evade military duty, he took to sea in 1849, and after six
months on the ocean he arrived at San Francisco, and learning of the gold
discovery, he set out for the mines. He reached Moccasin, Tuolumne County and
instead of mining, started gardening and fruit-raising, and with such success
that he continued in it. In 1852 he was married to Maria Canevaro who had just
come from Genoa, Italy in a party from there. In 1854 Mr. Lagomarsino moved to
Merced County and took up land on the river four miles below Snelling and
engaged in general forming and prospered well by his industry and frugality,
acquiring much valuable town property in Merced. He died in 1887. His wife
removed to Merced where she died at her home in 1895, survived by seven
children: Frank, who died at the age of thirty-five; Julia Faubel, of San
Francisco; Louis, who died aged thirty-two; Mary; Joseph; Fred A., the subject
of this sketch; and a child who died in infancy.

   Fred A. was born on the Snelling ranch, March 25, 1872, and was reared on the
Merced River ranch and worked with or for his parents until leaving home to
learn the plumber's trade, which he followed as a journeyman for eight years. He
owned and carried on the Merced Soda Works for twenty years, but he sold it out
in order to give his attention to ranching which had been in the hands of
tenants. He and his sisters own the old homestead of 219 acres on the Merced
River and some of Merced's most desirable business property in lots and
buildings. He is a member of the Exempt Firemen, and of the Native Sons of the
Golden West and of the U. P. E. C. and the I. D. E. S. of Merced.   He belongs
to the Catholic Church.


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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