Sacramento County
Biographies
VINCENTO CASELLI
VINCENTO CASELLI, orchardist, was born in Tuscany, Italy, August 16, 1835, a son of Pasquale Caselli, who died November 21, 1888, at the age of eighty-seven years. His mother died October 19, 1887, at the age of seventy-eight years. When seventeen years old he sailed for America and spent the first year in New York, manufacturing images from plaster of Paris. Next year he came to California by the Nicaragua route, landing in San Francisco in August, and on the coast he spent the first year among the mines in Sonora. Then he raised vegetables three years at San Francisco, and then engaged in farming in this county. He was five years on rented land on the Sacramento River in Sutter Township, and then bought seventy-two acres about two miles below the Riverside House and there carried on farming and vegetable gardening about ten years. Selling this place, he returned to Italy to visit his parents. After thirteen months of absence he rented a place below Sutterville, where the old brewery was, and remained there two years; and finally, in 1876, he purchased his present place between the upper and lower Stockton roads, consisting of sixty acres and devoted mostly to fruit; twenty-three acres are in vineyard, three acres in orchard of different kinds of fruit, especially the small fruits. Much credit is due Mr. Caselli for the industry and economy by which he has increased his worldly possessions from nothing to the comfortable home which he now enjoys. His family are all industrious laborers. Mr. Caselli was married, in 1861, to Mary Nevis, a native of Portugal, who died September 20, 1877, at the age of thirty-five years. Mr. Caselli has had six children, named Alfred, Maggie, Albert, Emanuel, Belle and Flora. Belle was born in Italy and the others in this county.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 719. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.