Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Gigling, Antone 1819 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

ANTONE GIGLING.—It is safe to say that this pioneer is the first settler in that
portion of the Salinas valley lying between Castroville and Salinas, and as an
early settler of Monterey county he merits appropriate mention on the pages of
this work.

  Mr. Gigling is of German birth and education. He was born at Baden Baden,
Germany, July 21, 1819. He learned the business of a brewer and distiller, and
followed that occupation until he was about twenty-eight years of age, at which
time he came to America. He spent the years 1847 and 1848 in Boston,
Massachusetts. In 1850 he came to California on the bark Alameda, and, after
spending a brief period in San Francisco, went to the mines. In 1852 he located
in the Salinas valley, this being before Watsonville, Castroville or Salinas had
come into existence. Here he has lived all these years, and is now one of the
most thrifty and thorough farmers in Monterey county. He owns a splendid home at
Blanco, where he resides, surrounded with all the comforts of life. At this
place he raises a great variety of choice fruits, apples, pears, etc. He also
owns 500 acres of grazing and farming land on the west bank of the Salinas river.

  Mr. Gigling was married at Castroville, in the fall of 1862, to Fannie Fox, of
Irish nativity. She was born May 12, 1832, came with her parents to this country
in 1855, and to California in 1860. By a former marriage she had one son and one
daughter.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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