Fresno County, 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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CHARLES M. CHALUP. � As an example of a self made man who has 
overcome insuperable difficulties and satisfactorily solved many of life's per- 
plexing problems, especial mention is made of Charles M. Chalup, the pro- 
prietor of one of Fresno's up-to-date groceries. He is a native of the Buckeye 
State, born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 3, 1873. He was educated in the 
very excellent public schools of his native city and had practical experience 
in his line of business through working in various groceries in Cleveland. 
In 1900, at the age of twenty-seven, he sought the advantages offered by the 
west to young men of enterprise and energy and tried his fortune in Nevada, 
in the occupation of mining for one year. Meeting with indifferent success 
he came to Fresno, Cal., in 1901, and secured employment in the grocery 
department of Einstein's department store, remaining with the firm for two 
and one-half years. While thus employed he decided to open a grocery of 
his own. selecting the west end of town, at the corner of Fresno and C 
Streets, as a suitable location for the venture. 

At that time this section was quite in the country, surrounded by grain 
fields and sparsely inhabited. He purchased a shack twelve by twelve feet 
in dimension and a two room cottage adjoining on a lot thirty-seven by one 
hundred feet, for which he paid $675. Later he added twelve feet to the side 
of his store. In this small space he and his wife opened their first store on 
a capital of seventy-five dollars. For two years bis faithful help-mate kept 
the store while he worked for Mr. Einstein. From this small beginning 
evolved their present up-to-date grocery in which they have made money 
and prospered beyond their most sanguine expectations, large credit for the 
success of the enterprise being due to Mrs. Chalup's good judgment and 
faithful efforts. Air. Chalup has been very successful in buying and selling 
real estate, and also served for one year as city trustee under appointment 
by Mayor W. P. Lyon. 

Mrs. Chalup, before her marriage, was Miss Ellen New, a native of 
Illinois., Mr. and Mrs. Chalup are the parents of two interesting children, 
Mary Louise, and Alice Ellen both of whom were born in Fresno. 

Mr. Chalup is a member of Fresno Lodge, No. 247. F. & A. M. ; is a 
thirty-second degree Mason and Past Wise Master of Rose Croix, No. 8. of the 
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masonry. He is also a member 
of the Fresno Lodge of Eagles.