Sacramento County
Biographies
PETER ANTONE
GALGANI
P. A. GALGANI, merchant, Sacramento, is a native of Tuscany, Italy, born ten miles from Lucca, June 20, 1847, his parents being V. and Cleopha (Bartholome) Galgani. The father was a farmer and land owner. P. A. Galgani was the sixth in order of age of a family of nine children. He was reared at his native place, and finished his education at Lucca, where he attended college three years. In 1869 he sailed from Laverno to Corsica, then went from Bastierne to Marseilles, and thence to Paris. He decided to go to America, and proceeded to Havre, took passage on the “Ballona,” reaching New York after a rough voyage. He then started for California via Panama. When he arrived at San Francisco he found a brother waiting to receive him. He engaged in farming near the city, and was so engaged until 1871, when he came to Sacramento. He secured a place near Sutterville, where he farmed for a time. He next kept the Garibaldi House, in Sacramento, for three years, then went to farming again, in Brighton Township. He quit farming in 1887, and in April of that year embarked in the mercantile business on the corner of Twenty-first and O streets, Sacramento. In November, 1888, he removed to his present location, on the northeast corner of Eighteenth and M streets, where he has built up a good business. Mr. Galgani was married in Sacramento November 26, 1874, to Miss Mary Ferretti, a native of Philadelphia. They have six children, viz: Cleopha, John Batiste, Alba, Helena, Caesar and Louis. Mr. Galgani is president of the Sacramento Society of Bersaglieri, and is third lieutenant of the company of sharpshooters connected with the society. Mr. Galgani takes an active interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the people of his native land, as also of his adopted country, and is an influential, active man.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 749-750. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.