Merced-Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Borsini, Serafino 1855 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

SERAFINO BORSINI

   The path to fortune is not strewn with flowers even under the most favorable
conditions. In the life of Serafino Borsini there were many obstacles to be
overcome which would have discouraged many young men, hence the success to which
he has attained is worthy of mention. He was born in Canton Ticino, Switzerland,
on April 25, 1855, the son of Sebastian and Josephine (Berta) Borsini, farmer
folk in Switzerland who spent their entire lives there, the father dying at the
age of fifty and the mother at seventy years. The sixth of eight children,
Serafino received his schooling at the local school and when he was nineteen he
came to America, arriving in Nevada in 1874, where he found employment in the
mines and in the woods near Virginia City for a year. He then came to Plumas
County, Cal., worked as a milker at twenty dollars a month and found for the
first four months, on a dairy in the Sierra Valley. Even with this small wage he
was soon able to buy cows and go into the dairy business for himself. In 1905 he
came to Merced County, purchased forty acres of alfalfa land north of Cottonwood
school house and here he has carried on a prosperous dairy business ever since.
Mr. Borsini became an American citizen in 1883 and votes the Republican ticket
at all times.

   On October 30, 1883, Mr. Borsini was united in marriage with Miss Celia Mead,
daughter of Allen and Mary (Price) Mead, of Pennsylvania Dutch stock.
Grandfather Price crossed the plains with oxen and a prairie schooner in the
pioneer days and settled in Plumas County. Allen Mead was a teamster; both he
and his wife have passed on. Mr. and Mrs. Borsini have had nine children, viz.:
Carrie Edna, Mrs. F. B. Sleeper of Oakdale; Mary Josephine, widow of Al Terzich,
of San Francisco; Katherine Alberta, Mrs. Robert Cassity, has six children,
Frances Lucille, Fay Roberta, Robert Hulen, Aloha May, Vernon Claire and Helen
Grace; Frankie Rae, Mrs. George Gilligan of San Francisco, is the mother of
Ernest, Melba, Dorothy, Juanita, Frank, Mary, Jack and Jean-ette Gilligan;
William S., who died when seven years old; Celia Rebecca, married Herbert Graham
of Vancouver, Wash., and has a son, Bruce; Albert Sebastian and Allen Carlton,
twins; Brenda Avis, Mrs. Laurence Sterling, of Gustine. Mr. and Mrs. Borsini are
public spirited and hospitable people and assist in doing good wherever they can.


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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