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 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


GUY R. VIGNOLA. � A firm believer in the great future in store for 
Fresno County, of which he is a native son, Guy R. Vignola was born in 
Buchanan. Tune 11, 1884. He is a son of Angelo and Margaret (Lovaroni) 
Vignola. The father landed in New York at the age of five years, and was 
raised in that state. In the early fifties he crossed the plains to California, 
and mined for gold in Mariposa County for a time. He later settled in 
Fresno County, of which he was one of the pioneers. Here he followed 
mining, and was a storekeeper, sheepraiser and stockman, owning a 
large ranch near Buchanan. He also ran a store in Madera County in pioneer 
days. His death occurred in. 1906. To this pioneer couple eleven children 
were born, as follows: Emile and John, prominent citizens of Turlock 
County: Julius and Caesar, running the old home ranch at Buchanan: 
Frank: Mrs. George Wright, of Tuolumne County: Mrs. David Lockton, of 
Sonoma, Cal. : Mrs. Addie Hanby : Mrs. Vera Holland: Guy R., of this 
review ; and Juliet, who died when eighteen years old. 

Guy R. Vignola was raised on the home ranch in Buchanan, and at- 
tended the schools of that district, later finishing his education in the 
grammar school at Raymond, and also taking a course at a college in San 
Francisco. Always ambitious for further educational advantages, he has 
continued his studies since his school days, and is at present taking a 
correspondence school course in law. He engaged in the butcher business 
at Raymond, and for a time was engaged in newspaper work in Fresno. 
With W. W. Watson he founded the Fresno Daily Abstract, now called 
the "Daily Real Estate Reporter," devoted to real estate news transfers, 
court records and market reports. In 1908 he started in the real estate 
business in Fresno, and has been very successful in that line. He specializes 
in large ranch properties, and has sold and exchanged many large parcels 
of land in the county. A resident of Fresno County since his birth. Mr. 
Vignola has a thorough knowledge of conditions and values in this section, 
and his success has followed as a matter of course. Meanwhile he has been 
aiding in the development of the resources of his native county.