Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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JAMES CASTRUCIO, 
 
the senior partner and managing member of the firm of Castrucio Brothers, 
proprietors of the Mariposa Store, at No. 30 North Main street, is a native of 
Italy, where he was reared and educated. He immigrated to America in 1876, then 
a young man twenty-four years of age, and having served as a soldier in the 
Italian army before coming over. Upon arriving in this country he located in Los 
Angeles, and the same year became connected with the grocery business, of which 
he has has active control for the past twelve years, and which has enjoyed a 
continuous career of prosperity under his conservative and efficient management. 
The store, which is a large double room, with a rear alley communication for 
receiving and delivering goods, is stocked with a complete assortment of 
standard groceries and provisions, also wines, liquors and miscellaneous 
articles for household use. The house was established in 1868, and hence is one 
of the oldest in Los Angeles; and the policy of its management has been so 
straightforward and honorable that it has customers who have dealt with the firm 
for fifteen years. It has a large patronage among the Spanish-speaking people of 
the city and surrounding country, as also many American ranchers, and enjoys a 
large restaurant and hotel trade, the average volume of business being $10,000 a 
month. The members of the firm own the brick building in which the store is 
situated. James Castrucio is a student as well as a business man, and has 
studied and mastered the English, French and Spanish languages during his 
residence in Los Angeles. He married an Italian lady in this city in November, 
1882. He owns several pieces of city property and a ranch eight miles distant. 
This ranch is under a high state of cultivation, and on it is situated one of 
the finest artesian wells in this part of the State.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 437
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler