California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


BELIO & ALLUE.� The proprietors of the Willits Steam Laundry, 
Florence Belio and Firmin AIlue, are enterprising men and are building up a 
laundry business that reflects credit on the city. Since they purchased the 
laundry they have remodeled it and put in new and modern machinery, so they 
are equipped to do the work by the latest and most approved process. Both 
men are thorough going and enterprising, and their business is increasing in 
a deserving measure. 

Florence Belio, the senior member of the firm, was born at Pau, Basses- 
Pyrenees, France, in 1882. and learned the carpenter's trade in that country. In 
1905 he came to San Francisco, where he was employed in a laundry until 
1913, when he came to Willits to become a partner of Mr. Allue in the Wil- 
lits Laundry. In Basses Pyrenees he was married to Marie Allue who was 
born in that country and by tills union there were born two children. Amelie 
and Antone. 

Firmin Allue was born in Pan, Basses-Pyrenees, France, in 1890. In 1909 
he came to California and at Suisun entered the employ of the steam laundry, 
where he learned the laundry business. Thence lie went to San Francisco, 
where he worked at his trade until October, 1912, when he came to Willits as 
an employe of the steam laundry until January, 1913. It was then that he and 
Air. Belio bought the business which they have continued ever since with 
good success.