California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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JOE CAZEILS. � A successful blacksmith and first-class mechanic, who 
by honest efforts and hard work is building up a large patronage at Reedley, 
is Joe Cazeils, a native of France, where he first saw the light of day in 1877. 
He is the son of Peter and Nancy Ann Cazeils, natives of France and the 
parents of four children, two of whom are in the United States � one being 
in Nevada, and the other being Joe Cazeils of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Peter 
Cazeils are both deceased. 

Joe Cazeils was reared and educated in his native land. In his twenty- 
sixth year, 1903, he immigrated to the United States, coming directly to 
Fresno County, Cal. Before leaving France he learned the trade of a black- 
smith, but had to supplement his knowledge, after arriving here, with some 
of the American ideas. For three years he was employed by the California 
Wine Association, but in 1913 he removed to Reedley and there established 
himself in his present spacious and well-equipped quarters, which comprise 
a shop thirty-four by sixty feet in floor space. He owns two lots whose total 
frontage is 100 feet and whose depth is 125 feet. The shop is fitted for doing 
woodwork as well as machine work, and is equipped with all modern ma- 
chinery for conducting a first-class general blacksmithing and horseshoeing 
business. By rendering first-class service to his patrons, Mr. Cazeils is not 
only gaining financial success, but is winning that which is even more to be 
desired, the respect of his associates and the confidence of the community.