Entrepreneur. He is recognized as the founder of one of the largest family-owned dairy empire operations in the world, Joseph Gallo's Farms, which produces dairy products including a variety of cheeses. Born the youngest son of Assunta "Susie" Bianco and Giuseppe "Joseph", immigrants from Fossarano, Italy, he had a childhood in a Roman Catholic household that spoke Italian and as the second language, English. His older brothers, Ernest and Julio, became the founders of E & J Gallo Winery, which became the largest exporter of California wines and the largest family-own winery in the United States. Since 1906 as Gallo Wine Company, his father and uncle operated as middle men, buying wine from small wineries and selling to local bars and restaurants. His father attempted several times to start his own winery but failed after the 21st Constitutional Amendment was passed, prohibiting the legal production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States. When he was a young child, his family had relocated to a farm near Modesto where they cultivated wine grapes, but the Great Depression shattered the family's finances. This may have led to his parents' deaths on June 21, 1933, which were ruled as a murder and suicide. When his parents died, he was age thirteen and left in the care of his older brothers, who started their own wine making business. Along with learning the wine making business, he learned the art of cheese making from his grandparents. He attended Modesto Junior College before enlisting in the United Army Air Forces, serving honorably in World War II in the Philippines and then Korea. After the war, he broke from his brother's wine making business at age 27, starting his own dairy farm which expanded to five dairy farms by 1979, marketing cheese under the name Joseph Gallo Cheese. His two older brothers sued him in an attempt to stop him from using their company's name of Gallo, "claiming trademark infringement," thus in 1988 his cheese making business started the trademark name of "Joseph's Farm". Although the nasty legal case drove a permanent wedge between the brothers, Joseph's Farm is being managed in the 21st century by the third generation of cheese makers and is an internationally recognized brand. The farm produces a variety of natural, hormone free cheeses, which have been the recipient of numerous environmental awards including seventeen state, national, and international gold medals, and his provolone cheese was named "best in the world" at the World Cheese Awards. He married and the couple had two sons and a daughter, who became part of the family business. His oldest son, Peter, was killed while serving in the Vietnam War, but his other son, Michael, eventually became head of the cheese making business. As a philanthropist, he and his family established in 1968 the Peter J. Gallo Memorial Foundation, which became part of the initial construction of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC and aiding military students, built the 1st Lt. Peter J. Gallo Veterans Resource Center at Merced College. For this reason, the Merced College President Award was given to the foundation in 2018. In 1995, "Successful Farming" magazine recognized Joseph Gallo Farms in Atwater as the nation's largest farm with more than 37,000 dairy animals and hundreds of employees. He also owned vineyards. His health declined with aging, having strokes and dementia before dying at age 87.