Monterey County

A dealer in cigars whose leaders are all favorites and whose patrons are the same steady buyers who know a good thing when they smoke it, is Joseph V. Crivello, of 205 Alvarado street, Monterey, where he owns a half interest in the Star Pool Room. He was born in Italy, November 2, 1892, the son of Vincent and Frances (Coniglio) Crivello, and he came to the United States with his father in 1908. The latter remained here until 1911, when he returned to his native land. Educated in the public schools of Italy, Joseph V. Crivello afterward took up … Read more

So long as Pacific Grove is animated with the spirit under which it was founded, so long will it honor such gentlewomen as Mrs. Lucie A. Chase, of 967 Ocean boulevard, decidedly one of the representative residents of this representative town. She was born at Plainfield, New Hampshire, and christened Lucie A. Moore. At Concord, in that same state, in 1863, she was married to Henry B. Chase, a native of New Hampshire, who passed away in April, 1922. For fifteen years they lived in New York city, and in the centennial year of the republic, 1876, they went west … Read more

Eugene S. Franscioni is the oldest of six children born to Sereno and Mary (Marentis) Franscioni, his brothers and sisters being William, who is associated with his father in the retail meat business; Margaret, now Mrs. Guy Cavalli; Albert, an automobile mechanic; Lillian, a clerk in the department store of Soledad Mercantile Company at Soledad; Edward, a senior in the Soledad high school. William and Albert are veterans of the World war, serving in the navy. Sereno Franscioni, a native of Switzerland, came to California as a young man and for some time was the proprietor of a ranch. He … Read more

John McKay, the wide-awake proprietor of the Woodbine Cigar Store, at 450 Alvarado street, Monterey, was born in Toronto, Canada, September 19, 1871. His father, who also bore the name of John McKay, died in Canada, but his mother, Mrs. Ann (Hellams) McKay, came to California, where she passed away. All who knew them testify to their superior worth, and the good name they left our subject is his greatest inheritance. John McKay of this review attended the public schools of Canada and then pushed out into the world to still further broaden his education. At the age of seventeen … Read more

Among the well known building contractors in Monterey county there is perhaps none who has established for himself a higher reputation for the general excellence and artistic character of his work than has Fred Ruhl, who has been engaged in contracting in Pebble Beach for the past ten years and more, and who during that time has directed the construction of some of the most notable of the attractive residences that adorn the streets of that popular seaside resort, among these being the McComber home, the Pebble Beach lodge, the McNaughton home and the McKensie home. Fred Ruhl was born … Read more

Henry L. Mead, the dependable and popular transfer agent for the Del Monte Hotel, is a native son, born at Castroville, October 6, 1870, and is a son of Henry Sherman and Juana (Pomber) Mead. The father came to the Golden state at the age of seventeen years, in 1858. He entered the service of the Sargents and for years was the superintendent of the famous Carmel ranch. Later he was with Louis Little in the general merchandise business at Castroville, and there he died. Our subject’s maternal grandmother was also of an old pioneer family. Mrs. Mead passed away … Read more