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GRAMBATTISTA B. LEONARDINI
For almost a quarter of a century G.
B. Leonardini has been a resident of San Joaquin County, California, and his
industry has enabled him to overcome the difficulties and obstacles in his path
and work his way steadily upward to the plane of affluence. He is a native of Italy, his birth occurring
at Varese Ligure in the Province of Genoa, on July 3,
1884 a son of Lazaro and Angela (Delucchi)
Leonardini and is next to the youngest in a family of eight children: Domingo, Peter, Mary, Katie, Louise, Antonio,
G. B. of this sketch, and Anna, deceased.
Lazaro Leonardini
was a farmer by occupation and lived to be seventy-three years old, passing
away three years ago, and the mother lived to be seventy-three years old,
passing away in 1921. At the age of fifteen
years, in 1899, G. B. Leonardini came to the United States and joined his
brother Domingo in Stockton; he worked for wages on various farms in the
district for six years; then he leased twenty-six acres of the Salori ranch about eight miles northeast of Stockton on the
Upper Sacramento Road where he raised fruit for ten years; he then bought
twenty-six acres of bare land on Ashley Road and set it out to peaches,
cherries, walnuts, plums and apricots; this ranch is located about six miles
from Stockton and is in a productive and fast growing section of the county.
On September 4, 1907 in Stockton,
occurred the marriage of Mr. Leonardini and Miss Louise Stagnaro,
a native daughter of Stockton, California, and a daughter of Angelo and Angela
(Moresco) Stagnaro, also
born in Varase Ligure. Angelo Stagnaro
came to California about forty-five years ago from his birthplace in Genoa,
Italy, where he was reared on a farm, and was married in Stockton and they
engaged in fruit raising and now live retired in Stockton. There are three children in their
family: Rachel, Mrs. Louis Foppiano;
Louise, Mrs. Leonardini; and Louis, who lives in Stockton. Mrs. Leonardini was educated in the grammar
schools of Stockton and grew to young womanhood there. Mr. and Mrs. Leonardini are the parents of
three children: Ernest, Edna and
Eunice. Mr. Leonardini belongs to the Giardiniere Lodge in Stockton, an Italian-American
organization. In 1915 a comfortable
residence was built on his ranch, where the family resides.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1616. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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