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PAUL MADONNA
A prosperous dairyman of San Joaquin
County is Paul Madonna, part owner of a forty-acre dairy ranch three miles
southeast of Lodi on Hogan Lane. A
native Californian, he was born at Half Moon Bay on February 3, 1890 a son of
Paul and Theresa (Pezzoni) Madonna. The father was a native of Canton Ticino,
Switzerland, and in young manhood came to California and settled at Half Moon
Bay, where he owned and operated a dairy ranch; later he removed to Suisun,
Solano County, and rented an 1,800-acre ranch on which
he maintained about 300 head of cattle.
Our subject is the second oldest in a family of seven children: Fred resides in Lodi; Mary is Mrs. Cords of
Woodbridge; Emesta, Mrs. P. Sargenti
of Galt; Paul; Joseph; Mrs. Ida DeCarli and Mrs. Ella
Anis are both deceased. The father lived
to be seventy-one years old and the mother resides on the Lodi ranch. Joseph Madonna, Paul’s brother, entered the
service of his country as a private on June 26, 1918 and was sent to Camp
Lewis; then transferred to Camp Fremont and placed in Company F of the 62nd
Infantry, 8th Division. From
August to October, 1918 he remained at Camp Fremont, then was sent to Camp
Mills, New York, and later to Camp Lee, Virginia, where he remained until sent
back to California, where he was discharged at the Presidio, San Francisco, in
1919. He was an excellent shot and
qualified as a sharpshooter.
Paul Madonna attended school in
Solano County until the time of his father’s death, when he and his brothers
conducted the dairy. In 1915 the family
removed to Lodi and purchased forty acres on Hogan Lane, which is devoted to
the raising of alfalfa and a dairy of thirty-five cows is maintained, being of
the Holstein and Durham breeds. Mr.
Madonna was married at Suisun on September 8, 1915 to Miss Mary Baccala, a native of Birds Landing, California, and a
daughter of Charles and Olivia Baccala, and she was
educated at Benicia. Her only brother,
Joseph Baccala, entered the U. S. Army as a private
in June, 1918 and went into training in Arizona, where he served on an
ammunition train and was sent to France where he remained for one year then was
returned to the United States and was discharged at the Presidio, San
Francisco. In politics Mr. Madonna is a
Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Eagles of Lodi.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1606. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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