Santa Clara County Biographies


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Frank Anello
Santa Clara County Rancher
from Palerma , Italy

SURNAMES: CHIOVARO, HILL,

Frank Anello ...as a reward for his industry Frank Anello has a fine ranch of 
thirty acres on the Homestead Road, near Santa Clara , and its development has 
been due to his energy and forethought. Mr. Anello is a long way from the land 
of his childhood, for he was born in the Province of Palerma, Italy, May 7, 
1893, a son of Vincent and Providence Anello, the father a farmer in his native 
land. Frank is the youngest of a family of three children; Madeline is now Mrs. 
Chiovaro and has two children, Joseph and Francis and they live on the Homestead 
Road; Sam, married Mrs. Hill and they have three children, Vincent, Providence, 
and Frank. In 1895 the father came to the United States and worked in various 
parts of the county, finally settling in Dixon , Texas, and in 1904 his family 
joined him.

Frank Anello received his education in the schools of his native province and 
his early childhood days were spent on a farm helping his father. Upon arrival 
in Texas, the father leased a small ranch and with the help of Frank ran it for 
one year, when they removed to Santa Clara County, where our subject worked for 
Frank Di Fore and later for H. F. Curry of Berryessa. The father bought a 
ten-acre piece of property on the Senter Road, which was devoted to fruit 
raising and after six years, sold this ranch and a forty-two-acre property was 
purchased on the Homestead Road about three and half miles from Santa Clara. 
Later this ranch was divided and his son-in-law now has ten acres and the 
balance remained in the possession of the father, while Frank and his brother 
Sam Anello operate the orchard. The land is well improved with an irrigating 
well and good buildings.

On August 28, 1917, Mr. Anello entered the U.S. Army and was set to Camp Kearney 
and served in the One Hundred Forty-fifth Machine Gun Battalion in Company B. 
After a month's training this company was started on its way to France, and 
after arrival there Mr. Annelo was transferred to the One Hundred Thirty-fifth 
Division. Mr. Anello trained at various points in France and twenty-one days 
before the armistice was signed, his company was placed in the Cerndun sector. 
While serving at the front Mr. Anello sprained his ankle very severely and was 
in the hospital for four months. He returned to his home via Brest to Hoboken, 
N. J., and thence to the Presidio, San Francisco, where he was discharged May 
23, 1919, and returned to his home.

In Oakland, on November 28, 1920, Mr. Anello was married to Miss Mamie Chiovaro, 
a native of Louisiana. While still a young girl, her parents removed to Oakland 
there she received her education in the public schools. They are the parents of 
one child, Providence.

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara 
County, California,
published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1384