California Biographies

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 the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


PETER H. LOINAZ. One of the most popular and successful hotel men of Fresno 
county is P. H. Loinaz, the genial and accommodating proprietor of the Firebaugh hotel, 
whose services as a host are appreciated by the traveling public. A native-born son of Cali- 
fornia, his birth occurred September 9, 1873, in San Francisco, where his father, P. Loinaz, 
settled on coming to the Pacific coast from Spain. 

Emigrating from Spain to California about 1856, P. Loinaz was associated with the in- 
stallment of the first water system in San Francisco. He subsequently removed to the 
San Joaquin valley, locating on the west side, where he was successfully engaged in sheep 
raising for a few years. Investing his money then in land in Madera county, he improved a 
valuable ranch, and has since been profitably employed in grain and stock raising, being one 
of the leading farmers of that section, and a citizen of much prominence and influence. 

Spending his earlier years principally in Madera county, P. H. Loinaz was educated under 
a private instructor, the school system in that then sparsely settled section being primitive 
and limited, afterwards being graduated from the Chestnutwood Business College, in Santa 
Cruz. Going then to San Francisco, Mr. Loinaz was for five years bookkeeper in the Pal- 
ace hotel. Returning to Madera county, he was for eight years a resident of Berendo, serv- 
ing the first three years as clerk in a mercantile establishment, and the last five as proprie- 
tor of the Berendo hotel. Coming to Firebaugh in 1898, Mr. Loinaz purchased the Fire- 
baugh hotel, which he has since conducted in a noteworthy manner, winning an extensive 
and lucrative patronage. The house is large, attractive, and well arranged, and under the 
genial management of Mr. Loinaz presents to its guests a homelike feeling that is ever ap- 
preciated. 

Mr. Loinaz married, in Firebaugh, Miss Emilie C. Idiart, who was born and bred in 
San Francisco, and they have one child, Juanita. Politically Mr. Loinaz casts his vote in 
favor of the Republican party.