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JAMES PELLANDINI
JAMES PELLANDINI.—An
experienced dairyman who has met with good success since coming to the Galt
district is James Pellandini, a native of Switzerland,
born at Arbedo, Canton Ticino,
October 3, 1874. His parents were Fulgenzio and
Angelino Pellandini, both natives of that country,
where the father passed away at the age of fifty-eight, while the mother still
makes her home there. They were the parents of ten children: Cecil, James,
Mary, Elizabeth, Peter, Louis, Joseph, Josephine, Maggie and Germano.
Educated in the schools of his native canton, James Pellandini made his way to the United States in 1892. After a short time at San Francisco,
he went to Livermore and for one season worked in a large winery. He
then went to Olema, Marin
County, where he was employed on a large diary ranch, and
thereafter spent five years at Santa
Maria, Santa Barbara County. After three years in Plumas
County in the same line of work, he was for two years on a
dairy ranch at San
Bruno, and from
there came to Galt, running the old Gates ranch on shares for three
years. He then started in the dairy business for himself, leasing the
Thomas ranch of 700 acres four miles northwest of Galt; and here he still makes
his home, having a fine dairy of 120 cows and prospering steadily, so that he
has been enabled to purchase a ranch of 330 acres on the Lincoln Highway of Arno.
On December 8, 1903, at San Francisco,
Mr. Pellandini was united in marriage with Miss Rosie Raggembos, born in the same
village in Switzerland as her husband. Her parents were Gottard
and Angeline (Pellandini) Raggembos, her father being an official of one of the Swiss
railways. He passed away at the age of eighty, but Mrs. Raggembos
is still living in Switzerland, the mother of three children, Lucy, Pierre and Mrs. Angeline Pellandini. Mr. and
Mrs. Pellandini have had eight children: James, who
died when ten years old; Julius, Albert, Angeline,
Lilly and Ida; Minnie, now deceased; and William. Mr. Pellandini
is a Republican in his political affiliations. Fraternally, he is a member
of the Odd Fellows, at Galt.
Transcribed 4-3-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 596. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.