Merced-Monterey-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Taglio, Nellie A. Leoni 1867 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

MRS. NELLIE A. TAGLIO

   The name which heads this review is representative of one of the oldest
families of Monterey County, Cal., where Mrs. Taglio was born, a daughter of
John B. and Juanita (Artellen) Leoni, the former a native of Switzerland and the
latter of Monterey, Cal. The mother of our subject is one of the oldest native
daughters in the State born of white parents, her father having been Peter
Artellen, a native of France and among the first white settlers in Monterey. His
wife was born in Monterey, of Spanish parents, who had immigrated from Spain.
The parents of our subject were married in Monterey and engaged in farming in
that section until the father's death in 1914, at the age of seventy-one. The
mother has reached the age of seventy-four years, and makes her home in
Watsonville.

   Nellie A. Leoni attended public school and the Catholic convent in Salinas.
On April 14, 1892, Miss Leoni was married to Peter L. Taglio, a native of
Switzerland, son of Louis Peter and Dominica Taglio, who never left their native
country. Peter L. Taglio was educated in the schools of Switzerland. In 1886 he
came to California and first settled in Sonoma County, where he worked as a
dairy hand. He attended night school while working and became proficient in the
English language. He removed from Sonoma County to San Benito County, and there
established a dairy of his own, continuing until he sold this business and
removed to Salinas, where he engaged in the dairy business with 100 cows for the
following eight years. He sold this business at a good profit and engaged in the
stock business, buying and shipping cattle and hogs to the San Francisco
markets. Following this, Mr. Taglio engaged in farming at Gonzales, Monterey
County, for four years. Fourteen years ago he located at Gustine. Here he
purchased the old Sturgeon ranch, consisting of 163 acres in the Cottonwood
district, and conducted a dairy until 1919, when he turned the management of it
over to his three sons.

   Mr. and Mrs. Taglio removed to Gustine, where he bought four acres within the
city limits. He lived retired in his new home until his death at the age of
fifty-eight years, and here Mrs. Taglio still makes her home. They were the
parents of seven children: Louis Peter, Romeo, Peter, Phillip, Nellie, Theodore,
and Raymond. The son Romeo served as a corporal in Company M, 364th Infantry,
91st Division, and saw service in France. Mr. Taglio was active in all Red Cross
and Liberty Loan drives during the World War; he was a member of the Gustine
Chamber of Commerce and was exceedingly public-spirited, taking an active
interest in everything pertaining to the progress and development of his
locality. Fraternally he was a member of the Druids and had passed through all
the chairs of that order. He was a Democrat in politics, and was a faithful
member of the Catholic Church, of which Mrs. Taglio is a liberal and consistent
communicant.


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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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