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GIOVANNI MARRACCINI
Well known as an enterprising and
successful grain rancher of Tracy, Giovanni Marraccini has also long been
prominent among the Italian-American citizens in this part of the Golden State,
exerting among his fellow countrymen and fellow patriots the most wholesome
influence making for better citizenship and more advanced industrial and
commercial relations. He was born near
Lucca, Italy, on December 27, 1850, and in that long famous southern country
spent his boyhood on a farm, becoming so adept in agricultural pursuits that,
on reaching early manhood, he ran the home farm for his parents. In 1874, wishing to find a larger field
somewhere in the world, he left home for America, and reached San Francisco in
June of the same year. He at once
continued inland to Yolo County, where he located near Capay, and there, for
eleven years, he worked hard as a farm hand.
He saved his earnings, however, and invested in implements and stock;
and for another eleven years he followed farming on his own account.
In October, 1894, he removed to San
Joaquin County and located on the G. Brichetto farm,
near Banta; and there he did so well as a rancher that he was able to retire in
1916 from the strenuous undertakings in agricultural pursuits to which he had
for years devoted himself. On November
11, 1882, he had married Miss Eliza C. Canale, a
native of Chiavari, Genoa, Italy, where she was born
on July 5, 1852. Mrs. Marraccini came
out to California at the age of fourteen, and with the exception of eleven
years when she was a resident of Capay, she has always resided near Banta. Four children were granted Mr. and Mrs. Marraccini: Rinaldo J. resides with his wife and two children at the
ranch home place, where he is manager of his father’s business; Antoinette is
the wife of Charles Boltzen, and resides near
Vernalis on a ranch; Angie is the wife of Oscar Buschke,
and they live near the home place; and Eda is at home. All the daughters are members of the Native
Daughters of the Golden West. Rinaldo J. is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the
Native Sons of the Golden West, and Mr. Marraccini is a charter member of the
I. O. O. F. Lodge at Capay, and has lived up to the precepts of the order since
he joined the lodge some forty-eight years ago.
He was made an American citizen in Yolo County in 1883, and soon
afterward joined the Republican Party.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
896. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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