San Joaquin County Biographies
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DAVID FACCINI
Comfortably situated among those who have both merited and attained the good will of a wide circle of friends is David Faccini, now living at 427 South Harrison Street, Stockton, an honored pioneer Italian-American, and a member of the Exempt Firemen of that city. He was born at St. Terezo, on the Gulf of Spezia, near the historic city of Genoa, on December 8, 1850, and at the very early age of ten went to sea on the steamboat "Tuscano," and for twenty-five years he followed a sailor's life. Most of this time he served on large Italian vessels, and he not only has sailed the "seven seas" but he has coursed around Cape Horn three times, and has seen much of many countries, particularly in South America. While ashore in Peru, where he was employed by one of the best clubs for nine years, he competed in water-athletics, being a champion oarsman; and he is rather proud of the record of never having lost in such a contest.
Aboard the good ship "Garibaldi," on which he had visited practically every port on the Pacific Coast in North and South America, David Faccini arrived in San Francisco in 1881 from Peru, then he went North to the salmon fisheries on the Columbia River, near Astoria, where he remained for two years. Then he returned to California, coming down to Stockton in 1883 on the river boat Paris City, and that season put in with service on the freight boats in the Delta. For twelve years he worked in the Stockton Paper Mill as a fireman and then for eleven years for the Bowers Rubber Company in San Francisco.
In 1892 he bought a tract of land near Stockton, which he developed into a garden ranch; for the past fifteen years he has been a faithful and trusted employee of the municipality of Stockton in the department of streets and highways, and now lives in the quiet and comfort of his family circle, entertaining his friends with remarkable ability in the narration of his many and varied adventures while traveling over the globe before he reached California, but nowhere, at any time, did he find any place more attractive to him than Stockton, in which city, in 1888, he was married to Miss Clarinda Largomazino, a native of Calaveras County, where she was born in 1866. Her father was a '49er, and he came direct from Italy to the Golden State via Nicaragua.
Four children have blessed this fortunate union of Mr. and Mrs. Faccini. Frank is the eldest; Angelina married Don Hopper and died leaving one son, Don; Josephine married Fred Fritz and has two girls—Dorothy and Evelyn; David, Jr., first saw the light on October 8, 1895; he served in the late World War, responding patriotically to the call of his native country on February 26, 1917, enlisting as an aviator at Kelly Field and went overseas in the 32nd Aero Squadron; and during spirited action, when exposed to the deadliest fire, he received three wounds and has still a piece of shrapnel in his leg. He is a member of the Army and Navy Union, Hiram W. Johnson Garrison No. 33, and of Karl Ross Post No. 16, American Legion. By a former marriage Mr. Faccini has one daughter, Mrs. Emily Benz.
Mr. Faccini early joined the volunteer fire department, becoming a member of Weber Engine Company and is now a member of the Exempts; he then joined the Bersaglieri, an Italian society; then became a member of Concordia Grove No. 98, U.A.O.D., and also holds membership in the Beneficencia Puccini.
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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