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ALEX E. GUIDICI
Alex
E. Guidici, one of Loyalton’s progressive and successful merchants, owning an
up-to-date meat market, in addition to which he is extensively engaged in the
buying and selling of live stock, was born on his father’s ranch in the Sierra
Valley June 26, 1888, a son of Alex and Sophia Guidici. His parents, who were married in Reno,
Nevada, were born in Gronico, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, and the father was
one of the first Swiss settlers in the Sierra Valley. He was accidentally killed, being struck by
an automobile at San Pablo, California, in September, 1927, when seventy-four
years of age. The mother passed away in
July, 1928, at the age of sixty-five years.
They were the parents of three sons and three daughters, namely: Alex Edward; Fred, on the home ranch; Delia,
the wife of Isaac Martinetti, living near Sattley; Frances, the wife of Marcell
J. Bony, of Sierraville; Irene, the wife of R. L. Canonica, of Richmond,
California; and Chester G., who is an extensive rancher at Adams Neck in the
Sierra Valley.
Alex
E. Guidici attended the public schools of his home neighborhood and was reared
on his father’s ranch in the Sierra Valley.
While still a young man, he engaged in the dairy and stock business,
having rented a tract of land, on which he conducted a large dairy. He later engaged in the retail meat business,
opening the Loyalton Meat Market in partnership with William Langdon, whose
interest he later bought. He carries a
full line of fresh and smoked meats, and such auxiliary lines as are found in
an up-to-date market. He kills his own
animals, the slaughter house being about two miles from town, and as he is a
good judge of animals on the hoof is able to offer his customers as good meat
as can be procured anywhere. He is an
extensive buyer of cattle, sheep and hogs, which he ships in carload lots to
the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets.
He now owns the building in which his market is located and nineteen
hundred and twenty-three acres of land in what is known as Adams Neck, in the
northeastern portion of the Sierra Valley in Plumas county, fourteen miles
northeast of Loyalton. This includes the
extensive ranch which was owned by his father, who was a very successful stock
and grain farmer, owned two great ranches of twenty-three hundred and
twenty-eight hundred and forty acres, respectively, and conducted an extensive
dairy. Part of the old home ranch is
occupied by Mr. Guidici’s brother, Fred P.
Mr.
Guidici is a Republican in his political views and has shown a commendable
interest in local affairs, but does not seek public office. He belongs to White Pine Lodge, No. 175, I.
O. O. F., at Loyalton; the Encampment of Patriarchs Militant, and the Modern
Woodmen of America. He is a man of good
habits, industrious and energetic, is sagacious, and his success has come to
him as the legitimate results of his earnest and rightly directed efforts.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Wooldridge,
J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley California,
Vol. 3 Pages 227-228. Pioneer Historical Publishing Co.
Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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