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EMIL BRAIDA
Numbered among the enterprising and
progressive citizens of Lodi is Emil Braida, the owner of an apartment house
located at 217 East Lockeford Avenue and a twenty-two acre vineyard and cherry
orchard just south of Youngstown. Viewed
from a financial standpoint his career has been a success, for he started
without capital. Realizing, however,
that labor is the basis of all prosperity he has worked persistently and
earnestly during the greater part of his business career at his trade of mosaic
and tile laying, his agricultural pursuits occupying more recent years. He was born near Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania,
June 20, 1885, a son of John and Madaline Braida, parents of eight
children. The father, John Braida, was a
stonecutter by trade who left Pennsylvania in 1893 for California, coming
direct to San Francisco, where he followed his trade until his death at the age
of fifty-nine. The mother was fifty-two
when she passed away.
Emil Braida attended the Lincoln
grammar school in San Francisco and as soon as he was old enough was
apprenticed to learn the mosaic and tile laying trade in San Francisco, which
he mastered and followed for a number of years in that city.
On November 11, 1920 in Stockton,
occurred the marriage of Mr. Braida, which united him with Mrs. Lila (Ehrhart) Laughton, born in Amador County, California, a
daughter of Thomas Ehrhart. Mr. and Mrs. Braida then moved to Youngstown,
where he purchased twenty-two acres set to vineyard and cherries. In 1921 Mr. Braida purchased a large
residence on East Lockeford Avenue, Lodi, which he has transformed into an
apartment house containing sixteen apartments, thoroughly modern in every
particular, and here Mr. Braida and his family make their home. They are the parents of two daughters, Hazel
and Vera. In politics he is a
Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Neighbors of Woodcraft.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1572. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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