San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/13/2009
EMIL BRAIDA
Numbered among the enterprising and progressive citizens of Lodi is Emil Braida, the owner of an apartment house located at 217 East Lockeford Avenue and a twenty-two acre vineyard and cherry orchard just south of Youngstown. Viewed from a financial standpoint his career has been a success, for he started without capital. Realizing, however, that labor is the basis of all prosperity he has worked persistently and earnestly during the greater part of his business career at his trade of mosaic and tile laying, his agricultural pursuits occupying more recent years. He was born near Beaver Falls, Pa., June 20, 1885, a son of John and Madaline Braida, parents of eight children. The father, John Braida, was a stonecutter by trade who left Pennsylvania in 1893 for California, coming direct to San Francisco, where he followed his trade until his death at the age of fifty-nine. The mother was fifty-two when she passed away.
Emil Braida attended the Lincoln grammar school in San Francisco and as soon as he was old enough was apprenticed to learn the mosaic and tile laying trade in San Francisco, which he mastered and followed for a number of years in that city.
On November 11, 1920, in Stockton, occurred the marriage of Mr. Braida, which united him with Mrs. Lila (Ehrhart) Laughton, born in Amador County, Cal., a daughter of Thomas Ehrhart. Mr. and Mrs. Braida then moved to Youngstown, where he purchased twenty-two acres set to vineyard and cherries. In 1921 Mr. Braida purchased a large residence on East Lockeford Avenue, Lodi, which he has transformed into an apartment house containing sixteen apartments, thoroughly modern in every particular, and here Mr. Braida and his family make their home. They are the parents of two daughters, Hazel and Vera. In politics he is a Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Neighbors of Woodcraft.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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