Napa-Sonoma-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Filippini, Charles 1847 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

CHARLES FILIPPINI, whose ranch of 2,222 acres, of which 500 acres are in Napa
County and 1,722 in Sonoma, is wholly devoted to dairying and general farming.
The dairy product is almost exclusively butter, there being 320 milking cows.
From each cow he obtains on an average 150 to 175 pounds of butter per year, the
market for which is San Francisco. Of grain he sold from the last crop $1,600
worth.

  He was born in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, in 1847. His parents were Battista
and Maria Filippini, also natives and still residents of that place. His father
owned a farm on which he was brought up, although he, the father, was a
contractor for roads and buildings, being by trade a stone-mason. Mr. Filippini,
at the age of fifteen years, went into the canton of Grison, where he learned
the trade of stone-cutter, spending three years at the business. He then came to
California, by way of Panama, and at first worked four months for wages in Marin
County and then commenced business on his own account, in dairying. He also
followed the same business one year at Santa Rosa, and was successful in both
places. In 1882 he purchased his present ranch, paying for it $57,000. He is a
member of Sonoma Lodge, No. 75.

  He was married in 1878 to Miss Emilia Del Ponte, also a native of Canton
Ticino, Switzerland, and they have eight children: Valente, Emidio, Elmira,
Alfred, Charles, Nellie, Vivian and Josa or Josie.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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