Alameda County Biographies

JEAN ARBIOS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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A farmer and vineyardist near Pleasanton, was born July 4, 1832, in Eysus, Basses-Pyrenees, 
France, where he was reared and educated, and brought up on a farm.  His parents were Joseph 
and Jeanne Maria (Laroude) Arbios, natives also of France.  The father died in 1865 and the 
mother in 1885.  Mr. Arbios came to America in 1864, landing in New York, and soon afterward 
came by way of Panama to this State, and was employed at farm labor for a time near San 
Francisco; next he was at the Almaden quicksilver mines for a year as a butcher; then he was 
engaged in mining until 1867 at Boise Mines, Idaho; then he was employed in conducting a dairy 
for five years in Marin County, this State; in 1872 he went to Sunol, and finally he located 
upon his present place, a mile and a half south of Pleasanton, on a farm of thirty-three acres, 
eight acres of which is in vineyard.  He also owns 160 acres of pasture land eight miles 
southeast of Sunol.  He was married in France, February 18, 1857, to Miss Genevieve Lalanne, 
a native  of Lurbe, Basses-Pyrenees, France.  Three of their children:  Joseph, Mary J. and 
John P. were born in France; and the other three, Edward, Theresa and Harry, were born here in 
California.  Mr. Arbios became a naturalized citizen in 1881, at San Francisco.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891