Sacramento County
Biographies
CARLO GADDI
CARLO GADDI.--For the past thirty-two years Carlo Gaddi has conducted large fruit interests in the vicinity of Sacramento; his orchard property consists of 105 acres located five miles from Sacramento on the Fruitridge Road. His birth occurred in Lucca, Italy, September 1, 1858, a son of David and Angelino Pasqueni Gaddi, both natives of the same province of Tuscany, where they were well-to-do farmers. Carlo Gaddi is the third of eight children and by the time he was old enough to work on the home farm, he was taken out of school and put to work in the fields. In 1879, accompanied by his brother, Santino, he came to America and directly to California. Santino Gaddi remained only eighteen days, but Carlo Gaddi worked for eight years in market gardening for Fiori Gabrialli.
Mr. Gaddi was united in marriage with Miss Vinerandi Perrinni, also born in Lucca, Italy, a daughter of C. Perrinni, who came to California in 1860. Mr. And Mrs. Gaddi are the parents of four children: David is a member of the Sunset Parlor, N. S. G. W., and is a rancher on the home place; Edith is Mrs. John Apostee and they have one son, Carlo Gaddi; Ernest saw service in France during the World War, is now a rancher at home, and is a director of the Fruitridge Berry Growers’ Association; Venna is deceased. In 1886 Mr. Gaddi became an American citizen and has since voted the Republican ticket.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 946.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.