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MRS. CANDIDA GIANNINI
A pioneer of 1877 is Mrs. Candida
Giannini, who arrived in Stockton on January 6 of that year. Before her marriage, Mrs. Giannini was Miss
Candida Bertazzi, the daughter of Joseph and Louise (Rosselli) Bertazzi. Her birth occurred July 7, 1851, at St.
Gotthard, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, where her parents were also born. Mrs. Giannini is the only surviving member of
a family of four children. Joseph Bertazzi was a school teacher and a well-to-do farmer in
his native country who passed away when his daughter
Candida was only nine months old. When
she was twenty-four years old she left home for America with a party of friends
and upon her arrival in New York she went to live with her sister, Mrs. Rosselli, who had preceded her to America by two
years. On January 6, 1877, she arrived
in Stockton and on the 27th of the same month was married to John
Giannini, also a native of Canton Ticino, Switzerland, born March 19, 1837, in
the village of Quinto. His parents, Antone and Johanna Giannini,
were farmers and were the parents of twelve children. When John Giannini was eighteen years old he
accompanied his brothers, Joseph, Balthisar and
Andrew and two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, to America. John Giannini came direct to San Francisco
and later engaged in mining in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties; in the sixties
he came to Stockton, where he purchased land in partnership with his brothers
Joseph and Andrew, and engaged in grain raising on land now known as the
Sunnyside Addition to Stockton. In 1877
the holdings of the brothers were divided, John Giannini receiving twenty-two
acres as his portion, a part of which is still owned by Mrs. Giannini. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Giannini: Albina, the widow of Adolph Carigiet, who assists her mother to preside over the home;
Alfred, deceased, and Celia who also resides at home. Mr. Giannini received his U. S. citizenship
papers in Stockton and was a staunch Republican. He passed away on March 1, 1892, honored and
beloved by all who knew him. Since her
husband’s death, Mrs. Giannini has handled the property in a most conservative
and businesslike manner and it has become one of Stockton’s most favored
residential sections. In 1908 Mrs.
Giannini completed her beautiful home on Cherokee Lane, where she now resides,
surrounded by her many friends.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
992-995. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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