A merchant whose unremitting labor and
enterprise, together with commendable publix-spirit and unimpeachable
integrity have broughttheir own reward, is John R. Carlo, of Milpitas,
who was born at Horta on the Island of Fayal, in the Azores, on April
6, 171, the son of Manuel and Anna (Gortado) Carlo, estimable
farmer-folk, in excellent standing in the community in which they
toiled and died. They had a good-sized family, but John is the only one
living of the once happy, united circle. He attended the public
schools at Horta, and when fifteen years of age came out to the United
States, stopping for a short time at Bostom. Then, in August, 1886, at
the beginning of the great boom here, he came on to California
and settled at Warmsprings in Alamdea County. There he again went to
school, but having a good chance to get some wrok on a farm, he
accepted a postion which he held for seven years.
He then farmed a part of the old William Curtain ranch, on the Dowhing
Road, the part now operated by J. F. Rose, and only at the end of eight
years sol out his interesst, being attracted to Milpitas. Here he
entered in to a partnership with Joseph Pashote, the father of the
Pashote Bros., to conduct the grocery and general merchandise business
now undertaken by the Pashotes, the partners buying out Mr. Cunha, but
in 1908, he sold hi interest to Mr. Pashote, and he built another store
in ilpitas, which he has since conducted.
At Milpitas, in January, 1904, Mr. Carlo was married to Miss Lena
Pashote, the daugher of
Joseph and Mary
Pashote, the forerm an early settler of San Lenadro. where he
engaged in framing. The bride was born in San Leandro, and in the
excellent school ther received her education. Four children have
blessed this unonis, Mary, John, Alfred and Joseph, all of whom attend
the Milpitas school. In national political affairs a standpat
Republican, and one who is influential in local councils, Mr. Carlo is
popula in fraternal circles. He is a member of the I. D. E. S.,
and he is sceretary of the Milpias lodge; he is also secretary of the
U. P. E. C. of Milpitas, is the supreme director for the S. E. S. of
Milpitas, and a charter member of the Milpitas lodge of the
Woodsmen of the World.