Bio- Sawyers- page 1649
[see bio of brother Nickolas]
SURNAMES: KLUNAK, MIGLIAS, KLICHIN, JOSICH
A very successful horticulturist, who has been a resident of Santa
Clara County since June 1886, and has established a reputation for
industry and square dealing, is Antone Zarevich. He is born near
Ragusa, Dalmatia, September 18, 1867, and is one of siz chldren, four
living, born to the parents, Antone and Mary (Klunak) Zarevich.
Both parents are now deceased. Antone as a lad had the advantages of
the publich schools and was brought up on the home farm. In 1886, when
he was eigheen years old, he came to the united states and immediagely
came across the continent to San Jose, Cal. He had no funds, so
he immediately went to work in orchards and on farms, and in time
became foreman on the same ranches where he had worked as a
farmhand. For five years he was foreman for Simowich, then
foreman for Blake for three years, after which he worked on the Kraker
ranch, first as foreman, then as manager of the ranch until 1916.
Meantime, as early as 1892, he had purchased land on Homestead Road,
where he had fifteen acres planted to orchard, and when it eached full
bearing he sold it at a good profit. He had also bought land on
Stevens Creek Road and Saratoga Avenue, adding to this adjoining land
until he now owns forth acres, the entire corner, which is mostly in
prunes, the balance being in peaches, now in full bearing and very
valuable. He has built a garage on the corner, making a splendid
improvement as well as a source of income. He owns a home orchard
of ten acres on Stevens Creek Road, all in prunes, and there he has
built a large, comfortable residence.
In 1916 he resigened as manager of the Kraker ranch to devote all
his time to the management o his own properties. He was first
married in San Jose , in 1892, to Miss Micholetta Miglias, who died six
years later, leaving two children, Antone, now deceased, and Mrs. Mary
Klichin, who resides on a ranch near San Jose. His second
marriage occurred in San Francisco and united him with Miss Annie
Josich also born in Dalmation, and they are the parents of one
child, Annie. Mr. Zarevich has been a member of the Austrian
Benevolent Society since 1887, and St. Joseph's Benevolent
Society , and the Goodfellows Lodge of San Jose. He is an active
member of the California Prune and Apricot Grower' Association and is
an example of what industry can accomplish. Starting only with
his two hands, with no friends to back him, he has become independent
and well-to-do, as well as influential.
Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1649
[ed. note-----burial information Santa Clara Mission Cemetery]
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