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AUGUSTO BELLUOMINI
A progressive, experienced and very
successful rancher is Augusto Belluomini, proprietor of the Delta Farm, on
Upper Roberts Island, embracing about 173 acres on Middle River, about ten
miles southwest of Stockton. He was born
in Tuscany, in the province of Lucca, Italy, on January 19, 1882 the son of Carmilindo Belluomini, a native
of Italy, who had come out to California in 1874 and settled near Marysville,
where he had a brother-in-law, C. Del Porto, a ‘49er, who had become well-to-do
in the farming and stock business. Carmilindo Belluomini remained in
California about seven years, during which time he did well on his farm, when
he returned to his native land, carrying back with him a fair-sized
fortune. He had married Zaira Del Porto, also a native of Italy, in 1872, and had
left her and the family in the old country.
Three sons were born to them. Angelo came to America at the age of
eighteen, became a well-to-do rancher in the Delta section, and died, with an excellent
record for usefulness to the community; Augusto is the subject of our story;
and Vincente is a Delta rancher. The
father passed away in 1899; and his widow lives, retired, in Lucca, aged
seventy-four years. In the winter of
1921-22 she enjoyed a visit from her son, Augusto, who made a trip to Italy,
being away from California for about four months.
It
was in 1892 that Angelo left Italy for California, making direct for the
Pacific Coast and settling in Sacramento; and after devoting himself for a few
months to farm labor, he went into the Kennedy Mine, at Jackson, Amador County.
When a boy of sixteen years of age
Augusto made the voyage to Melbourne, Australia, and there spent nine months,
when he returned home, and the next year, 1900, he followed his brother to the
Golden State, and after an adventurous trip, he also went into the Kennedy Mine
where he remained for two years. Coming
to Stockton in 1902, he remained a year on a Delta farm.
The next three years were spent in
San Francisco, where he joined his brother, Vincente, in the transfer and
express business, until the Great Fire following the earthquake swept
everything away. He then went to Oakley,
Contra Costa County, bought twenty acres of bare land on which he started a
vineyard; and three years later he was able to sell this at a good
advantage. In 1910 he moved back to
Stockton, and ever since he has been a successful Delta rancher. In 1918 he bought his present rancho, and in
addition to cultivating this acreage, he farms extensively on adjacent lands.
In Jackson in 1902, Mr. Belluomini
was married to Miss Childa Bagniski,
a daughter of Louis and Esther Baginski, the latter
now a retired resident of Palo Alto, both natives of Lucca, Italy, who came to
California in 1888. Mr. and Mrs.
Belluomini have three children: Inez,
Eleanor and Ernest. Mr. Belluomini, who
was made a citizen at Stockton, is a staunch Republican.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1327-1328. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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