San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/19/2010
GIOVANNI B. GOTELLI
For the past thirty-four years Giovanni B. Gotelli has been identified with the farming interests of California, and San Joaquin County has been the scene of his labors throughout this period. For twenty-one years he has resided on his home place of ten acres in the Morado section of San Joaquin County some seven miles northeast of Stockton. His native place was the Province of Genoa, Italy, where he was born at Varese Ligure, August 2, 1874, his parents being Dominico and Pelligrini (Demotte) Gotelli, both natives of Genoa, Italy. Dominico Gotelli came to California in 1884 and worked in San Francisco for seven years, then removed to the Morado district northeast of Stockton, where he bought forty acres of stubble field, which he developed to orchard and where he passed away at the age of sixty-three years; his widow now lives near Stockton. There are five children in the family, Giovanni B., our subject, being the eldest; Antonio F. resides with his mother near Stockton; Joseph also resides with his mother; Mary, Mrs. Genetti, and Anna, Mrs. Peirano, reside in Stockton. Giovanni B. Gotelli attended school at his old home until he came to California in 1889, joining his father in San Francisco, where he had vegetable gardens, and continued with him there until 1891, when they came to Stockton, where he assisted his father with the ranch work until he was twenty-one years old, then working two years for other farmers.
In March, 1899, in San Francisco, Mr. Gotelli was married to Miss Katherine Pezzi, also a native of Genoa, Italy, a daughter of Antonio and Mary Pezzi. After his marriage, Mr. Gotelli worked for a while in the vicinity of San Francisco, then returned to Stockton and helped his father on the home place for a year. In 1901 he came to his present ranch, which was at that time bare land. Improvements were begun at once, a house was built and an orchard of peaches and cherries was planted and later an irrigation system was installed. Mrs. Gotelli passed away November 11, 1918, leaving five children: Rosie, Paulmera, Lena, Antonio and Melvina. Mr. Gotelli in October, 1922, rented his ranch and moved to his residence on Magnolia Street, Stockton. He also owns a brick building on East Main Street which is occupied by the J.C. Penney store and Mrs. Murphy's Corset Shop. He is a Republican in politics and for two terms was a trustee of the Greenwood school district.
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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