San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 4/11/2010
GIOVANNI MARRACCINI
Well known as an enterprising and successful grain rancher of Tracy, Giovanni Marraccini has also long been prominent among the Italian-American citizens in this part of the Golden State, exerting among his fellow-countrymen and fellow-patriots the most wholesome influence making for better citizenship and more advanced industrial and commercial relations. He was born near Lucca, Italy, on December 27, 1850, and in that long-famous southern country spent his boyhood on a farm, becoming so adept in agricultural pursuits that,, on reaching early manhood, he ran the home farm for his parents. In 1874, wishing to find a larger field somewhere in the world, he left home for America, and reached San Francisco in June of the same year. He at once continued on inland to Yolo County, where he located near Capay, and there, for eleven years, he worked hard as a farm hand. He saved his earnings, however, and invested in implements and stock; and for another eleven years he followed farming on his own account.
In October, 1894, he removed to San Joaquin County and located on the G. Brichetto farm, near Banta; and there he did so well as a rancher that he was able to retire, in 1916, from the strenuous undertakings in agricultural pursuits to which he had for years devoted himself. On November 11, 1882, he had married Miss Eliza C. Canale, a native of Chiavari, Genoa, Italy, where she was born on July 5, 1862. Mrs. Marraccini came out to California at the age of fourteen, and with the exception of eleven years when she was a resident of Capay, she has always resided near Banta. Four children were granted Mr. and Mrs. Marraccini: Rinaldo J. resides with his wife and two children at the ranch home-place, where he is manager of his father's business; Antoinette is the wife of Charles Boltzen, and resides near Vernalis on a ranch; Angie is the wife of Oscar Buschke, and they live near the home place; and Eda is at home. All the daughters are members of the Native Daughters of the Golden West. Rinaldo J. is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Native Sons of the Golden West, and Mr. Marraccini is a charter member of the I.O.O.F. Lodge at Capay, and has lived up to the precepts of the order since he joined the lodge some forty-eight years ago. He was made an American citizen in Yolo County in 1883, and soon afterward joined the Republican party.
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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