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JAMES SANGUINETTI
JAMES SANGUINETTI, a rancher
of Douglass Township, was born in Italy in 1852, a son of Bartholomew and
Giovanna Sanguinetti. The mother died while her son James was a baby; the
father, born in 1811, is still living in Italy in 1889. The subject of this sketch
came to America in March, 1867, direct from Italy to San Francisco. Two
brothers, Angelo and Stephen, both of this county, had preceded him. James went
to work for his brother Stephen on his vegetable farm for two and one-half
years. Then with two partners he rented thirteen acres, on which they raised
vegetables for the Stockton market for six years.
In 1876, in company with a third brother,
Andrew, and two others, Mr. Sanguinetti bought forty acres on the Calaveras,
six miles from Stockton. About one year afterwards the brother met his death by
an unprovoked assault at the hands of a murderer, who immediately fled the
country and met his well-earned doom of a violent death in Mexico. The
remaining partners divided the forty acres equally, and Mr. James Sanguinetti
conducted his thirteen and one-third acres as a vegetable garden until 1886.
Selling his place, he worked on a farm a short time, and then on his brother
Angelo’s place one year. Meanwhile, in 1880, he had bought 320 acres in
partnership with this brother, about two miles east of Peters, and, with the
same, 120 acres two months later in the same region. By later purchases and
division of interests with his brother, he individually owns in 1889 480 acres,
entirely devoted to wheat.
In June, 1876, Mr. James Sanguinetti was
married in Stockton to Miss Maria Lagomarsino, born in Italy, October 31, 1856,
a daughter of Andrew and Angela (Kodomarti) Lagomarsino, both still living,
aged about sixty-five. She had come direct from Italy to San Francisco, and
thence to Stockton in 1876. They are the parents of five children: Andrew, born
August 27, 1877; James, August 16, 1880; George, October 26, 1883; Louisa,
January 1, 1886; Emilia, June 23, 1888.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California,
Page 631. Lewis Pub. Co. Chicago,
Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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