Merced-San Luis Obispo-Monterey County CA Archives Biographies.....Bizzini, Charles 1855 - 1917
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

CHARLES BIZZINI

   The name of Charles Bizzini was well-known among the successful
agriculturists of the Gustine section of Merced County for many years, where he
located the year prior to the laying out of the town of Gustine. His birth
occurred in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, November 4, 1855, a son of Rafael and
Madaline Bizzini, also natives of that country. Charles Bizzini received a
common school education in Switzerland and when twenty years old came to
California and settled at Cayucos in San Luis Obispo County, where he worked as
a ranch laborer; later he removed to Monterey County where he leased land and
farmed.

   At San Luis Obispo, on September 16, 1885, Mr. Bizzini was married to Miss
Delfina Dalidio, also born in Switzerland, daughter of Jacimo Pietro and Mariana
(Filippini) Dalidio. Her father had married in Switzerland and during the gold
excitement in California came West leaving his family in the old country. He
mined for twelve years, then returned to his home and there passed away at the
age of fifty years Mrs. Bizzini's mother lived to be seventy-one years old.
There were four children in this family: Angelina, died in Switzerland; Delfina,
the wife of our subject; Amelia, still makes her home in Switzerland; Theresa,
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Bizzini lived in Cayucos for three years. In 1906 they
removed to Merced County and purchased seventy acres in alfalfa just south of
where Gustine now stands; here a residence was built. Later he purchased a
nine-acre ranch on which he built a house and this was used as the home place. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Bizzini became the parents of ten children, namely: Elvira and
Esther, twins. Elvira is now Mrs. Calanchini, and Esther is Mrs. Zanini, and has
four children, Alma, Louis, Henry, and Walter; Dora is now Mrs. Bonta and she
has four children, Floyd, George, Mary and Chester. Edward G.; Louis Ralph;
Clara is now Mrs. McFaul; Amelia is Mrs. De Martin; Albert Charles; Rosalie is
Mrs. Louis P. Taglio; and Nellie D., a graduate of the University of California,
taught two years in the Gustine Grammar School and is now a teacher in the
Gustine High School. Mr. Bizzini passed away at the family home July 2, 1917. He
was an honored member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Gustine and a good citizen in
every sense of the word.



Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED 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
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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