San Joaquin County Biographies
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G.B. LEONARDINI
For almost a quarter of a century G.B. Leonardini has been a resident of San Joaquin County, Cal., and his industry has enabled him to overcome the difficulties and obstacles in his path and work his way steadily upward to the plane of affluence. He is a native of Italy, his birth occurring at Varese Ligure in the Province of Genoa, on July 3, 1884, a son of Lazaro and Angela (Delucchi) Leonardini and is next to the youngest in a family of eight children; Domingo, Peter, Mary, Katie, Louise, Antonio, G.B. of this sketch, and Anna deceased. Lazaro Leonardini was a farmer by occupation and lived to be seventy-three years old, passing away three years ago, and the mother lived to be seventy-three years old, passing away in 1921. At the age of fifteen years, in 1899, G.B. Leonardini came to the United States and joined his brother Domingo in Stockton; he worked for wages on various farms in the district for six years; then he leased twenty-six acres of the Salori ranch about eight miles northeast of Stockton on the Upper Sacramento Road where he raised fruit for ten years; he then bought twenty-six acres of bare land on Ashley Road and set it out to peaches, cherries, walnuts, plums and apricots; this ranch is located about six miles from Stockton and is in a productive and fast growing section of the county.
On September 4, 1907, in Stockton occurred the marriage of Mr. Leonardini and Miss Louise Stagnaro, a native daughter of Stockton, Cal., and a daughter of Angelo and Angela (Moresco) Stagnaro, also born in Varese Ligure. Angelo Stagnaro came to California about forty-five years ago from his birthplace in Genoa, Italy, where he was reared on a farm, and was married in Stockton and they engaged in fruit raising and now live retired in Stockton. There are three children in their family, Rachel, Mrs. Louis Foppiano; Louise, Mrs. Leonardini; and Louis, who lives in Stockton. Mrs. Leonardini was educated in the grammar schools of Stockton and grew to young womanhood there. Mr. and Mrs. Leonardini are the parents of three children; Ernest, Edna and Eunice. Mr. Leonardini belongs to the Giardiniere Lodge in Stockton, an Italian-American organization. In 1915 a comfortable residence was built on his ranch, where the family reside.
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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