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JAMES PELLANDINI
JAMES PELLANDINI.—An experienced dairyman
who has met with good success since coming to the Galt district is James
Pellandini, a native of
Switzerland, born at
Arbedo, Canton Ticino,
October 3, 1874. His parents were Fulgenzio and
Angelino Pellandini, both natives of that country,
where the father passed away at the age of fifty-eight, while the mother still
makes her home there. They were the parents of ten children: Cecil, James, Mary,
Elizabeth, Peter, Louis, Joseph, Josephine, Maggie and
Germano.
Educated in the schools of his native
canton, James Pellandini made his way to the
United States
in 1892. After a short time at
San Francisco,
he went to
Livermore
and for one season worked in a large winery. He then went to
Olema,
Marin
County,
where he was employed on a large diary ranch, and thereafter spent five years at
Santa Maria,
Santa Barbara
County. After
three years in
Plumas
County
in the same line of work, he was for two years on a dairy ranch at
San Bruno,
and from there came to Galt, running the old Gates ranch on shares for three
years. He then started in the dairy business for himself, leasing the Thomas
ranch of 700 acres four miles northwest of Galt; and here he still makes his
home, having a fine dairy of 120 cows and prospering steadily, so that he has
been enabled to purchase a ranch of 330 acres on the
Lincoln Highway
of
Arno.
On December 8, 1903, at
San Francisco,
Mr. Pellandini was united in marriage with
Miss Rosie Raggembos, born in
the same village in
Switzerland
as her husband. Her parents
were Gottard and Angeline
(Pellandini) Raggembos,
her father being an official of one of the Swiss railways. He passed away at the
age of eighty, but Mrs. Raggembos is still living in
Switzerland,
the mother of three children, Lucy, Pierre and Mrs.
Angeline Pellandini. Mr. and Mrs.
Pellandini have had eight children: James, who died
when ten years old; Julius, Albert, Angeline, Lilly
and Ida; Minnie, now deceased; and William. Mr. Pellandini
is a Republican in his political affiliations. Fraternally, he is a member of
the Odd Fellows, at Galt.
Transcribed
4-3-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of
Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 596. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R.
Pankey.