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JOHN BRICHETTO
Prominent among the experienced and
highly progressive financiers of California to whom San Joaquin County in
particular owes much for its up-to-date development along the broadest and most
permanent lines, is John Brichetto, the well-known farmer and banker of
Stockton, who was born at Banta, California, on February 5, 1881 the son of G.
and Luigia (Canale) Brichetto, the former of whom is now deceased, and both of
whom were natives of Italy. The father
came to San Joaquin County in 1867, here mined, and then worked at tunnel
construction for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Then, for awhile, he settled in the San Joaquin
Gardens on the river, and later located at Banta, where he raised and sold
vegetables. In 1872 he opened a general
store at Banta, which he conducted for many years. He was a large farmer and landowner in the
Banta district at the time of his death in 1916, and owned 9,000 acres on the
West Side. Several children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Brichetto, and among them were Irene, Minnie, Joseph C., Mrs.
Mollie Raspo, and John, who was educated in the public schools of the locality,
and at Santa Clara College. When through
with his studies, he was associated with his father in the store at Banta, and
after that he formed a partnership with his brother, Joseph C., under the name
of Brichetto Bros., and they are now known as large grain farmers on the West
Side, farming about 3,000 acres. Mr.
Brichetto is president of the Board of Directors of the Banta-Carolina
Irrigation District, recently formed, which will care for the irrigation of
some 20,000 acres in the Tracy and Banta districts.
In
addition to his activity in agricultural circles, Mr. Brichetto is also
prominent in banking circles. He is a
member, for example, of the Advisory Board of the Stockton Branch of the Bank
of Italy, and previously he was a director in the San Joaquin Valley National
Bank of Stockton. He was also a director
in the Bank of Tracy. He was once
postmaster at Banta, and he is at present manager of the G. Brichetto estate.
In the year 1916 at San Francisco,
California, Mr. Brichetto was married to Miss Nancy Kneass,
a native of San Francisco and a daughter of E. D. Kneass
of San Jose, California, a gifted lady, sharing the responsibilities and the
rewards of her husband’s strenuous life.
Mr. Brichetto belongs to Lodge No. 218 of the Stockton Elks, and the
Olympic Club of San Francisco.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1279-1280. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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