San Joaquin County
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ALFONSE FARETTI
Among the Swiss-American residents
of San Joaquin County, who have been successful as farmers and stockraisers, is Alfonse Faretti,
the owner of a fine 140-acre dairy ranch and young vineyard, four and one-half
miles southwest of Lodi on Kettleman Lane. He was born in Canton Ticino, Switzerland,
October 3, 1871, a son of Jerome and Concordia Faretti,
both natives of the same country. Jerome
Faretti was a painter by trade, who plied his trade
throughout the country and who made frequent visits to Paris, where he was
engaged at his trade. There were three
children in the family: John, who died
at the age of forty-two; Mrs. Cornelia Roselli, who
lives in Switzerland, and Alfonse. The
father died at the age of seventy years; the mother is still living in her
native land.
At the age of nineteen Alfonse Faretti had finished his schooling and set out for the
United States, coming direct to California, where he found employment on a
dairy ranch at Guadalupe, where he remained for three years; then he went to
Stockton and purchased cows and continued in the dairy business, supplying the
residents of Stockton daily with milk for three years; he then removed his
dairy to Ione, California, where he operated a dairy for twelve years, adding
to his herd from time to time until he had forty cows. He then removed to the old Castle place on
the French Camp Rad, which he rented for two years. He then came to the Lafayette district of San Joaquin County, where he bought 160 acres in
1917, twenty acres of which was in producing vineyard, sixty acres in
unimproved land and the balance in alfalfa.
In 1921 he sold the twenty-acre vineyard, leaving 140 acres, twenty-five
acres of which he has set to young vineyard and he also has seventy-five acres
in alfalfa; his ranch is irrigated by two pumping plants. His political allegiance is given to the
Republican Party.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1515-1516. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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