Sacramento County
Biographies
AURELIO ALBERTINI
AURELIO ALBERTINI.--An experienced dairyman
to whom many Californians owe something for his industry and progressive
methods, is this wide-awake Swiss-American, who was born in Canton Graubunden, Switzerland, on October 14, 1883. His father, Batista,
was a painter by trade, who passed away in his seventy-first year; while his
mother, Barbara, lived to be only fifty. They had nine children, and our
subject was the youngest of the family. When twenty-one years
old, he started out for himself, crossed the ocean to the United States, and made his way to California, where he settled in Plumas County, on a dairy farm, working
for a while for wages.
From Plumas County, he went to Carson City, Nev., and there he worked at various lines. On returning to California, he took up ranch work in one after another
county, and for a while he had a dairy ranch near Salida, in Stanislaus County.
In 1922 Mr. Albertini came
into Sacramento County and purchased seventy-eight acres two miles
east of Herald, on which he conducts a small dairy; and in this arduous duty he
is ably assisted by his devoted wife, who was Miss Mary Genacci before her
marriage, on August 30, 1919. She was born at Davenport, in Santa Cruz County,
and was the daughter of Charles and Mary Genacci, both natives of Canton
Ticino, the former a dairyman who came to the United States about forty years
ago. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Albertini.
Charles is the elder; and Aurelio the younger. While at Redwood City, in San Mateo County, Mr. Albertini became a citizen; and since
he has come to enjoy the franchise, and to support the best men and the best
measures for Sacramento County and Galt, he upholds the principles of the
Republican party.
Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 8/23/07.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 972-973.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Vicky Walker.