San Joaquin County Biographies
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PAUL MADONNA
A prosperous dairyman of San Joaquin County is Paul Madonna, part owner of a forty-acre dairy ranch three miles southeast of Lodi on Hogan Lane. A native Californian, he was born at Half Moon Bay on February 3, 1890, a son of Paul and Theresa (Pezzoni) Madonna. The father was a native of Canton Ticino, Switzerland, and in young manhood came to California and settled at Half Moon Bay, where he owned and operated a dairy ranch; later he removed to Suisun, Solano County, and rented an 1,800-acre ranch on which he maintained about 300 head of cattle. Our subject is the second oldest in a family of seven children: Fred resides in Lodi; Mary is Mrs. Cords of Woodbridge; Emesta, Mrs. P. Sargenti of Galt; Paul; Joseph; Mrs. Ida DeCarli and Mrs. Ella Anis are both deceased. The father lived to be seventy-one years old and the mother resides on the Lodi ranch. Joseph Madonna, Paul's brother, entered the service of his country as a private on June 26, 1918, and was sent to Camp Lewis; then transferred to Camp Fremont and placed in Company F of the 62nd Infantry, 8th Division. From August to October of 1918 he remained at Camp Fremont, then was sent to Camp Mills, N.Y., and later to Camp Lee, Va., where he remained until sent back to California, where he was discharged at the Presidio, San Francisco, in 1919. He was an excellent shot and qualified as a sharpshooter.
Paul Madonna attended school in Solano County until the time of his father's death, when he and his brothers conducted the dairy. In 1915 the family removed to Lodi and purchased forty acres on Hogan Lane, which is devoted to the raising of alfalfa and a dairy of thirty-five cows is maintained, being of the Holstein and Durham breeds. Mr. Madonna was married at Suisun on September 8, 1915, to Miss Mary Baccala, a native of Birds Landing, Cal., and a daughter of Charles and Olivia Baccala, and she was educated at Benicia. Her only brother, Joseph Baccala, entered the U.S. Army as a private in June of 1918, and went into training in Arizona, where he served on an ammunition train and was sent to France where he remained for one year, then was returned to the United States and was discharged at the Presidio, San Francisco. In politics, Mr. Madonna is a Republican, and fraternally is a member of the Eagles of Lodi.
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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