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GIOVANNI B. GOTELLI
For the past thirty-four years
Giovanni B. Gotelli has been identified with the farming interests of
California, and San Joaquin County has been the scene of his labors throughout
this period. For twenty-one years he has
resided on his home place of ten acres in the Morado section of San Joaquin
County some seven miles northeast of Stockton.
His native place was the Province of Genoa, Italy, where he was born at
Varese Ligure, August 2, 1874, his parents being Dominico
and Pelligrini (Demotte) Gotelli,
both natives of Genoa, Italy. Dominico
Gotelli came to California in 1884 and worked in San Francisco for seven years,
then removed to the Morado district northwest of Stockton, where he bought
forty acres of stubble field, which he developed to orchard, and where he
passed away at the age of sixty-three years; his widow now lives near
Stockton. There are five children in the
family: Giovanni B., our subject, being
the eldest; Antonio F. resides with his mother near Stockton; Joseph also
resides with his mother; Mary, Mrs. Genetti, and
Anna, Mrs. Peirano, reside in Stockton. Giovanni B. Gotelli attended school at his
old home until he came to California in 1889, joining his father in San
Francisco, where he had vegetable gardens, and continued with him there until
1891, when they came to Stockton, where he assisted his father with the ranch
work until he was twenty-one years old, then working two years for other
farmers.
In March, 1899, in San Francisco,
Mr. Gotelli was married to Miss Katherine Pezzi, also
a native of Genoa Italy, a daughter of Antonio and Mary Pezzi. After his marriage Mr. Gotelli worked for
awhile in the vicinity of San Francisco, then returned to Stockton and helped
his father on the home place for a year.
In 1901 he came to his present ranch, which was at that time bare land. Improvements were begun at once, a house was
built and an orchard of peaches and cherries was planted and later an
irrigation system was installed. Mrs.
Gotelli passed away November 11, 1918, leaving five children: Rosie, Paulmera,
Lena, Antonio and Melvina. Mr. Gotelli in October, 1922, rented his
ranch and moved to his residence on Magnolia Street, Stockton. He also owns a brick building on East Main
Street which is occupied by the J. C. Penney store and Mrs. Murphy’s Corset
Shop. He is a Republican in politics and
for two terms was a trustee of the Greenwood School District.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1599. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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