Yolo-Sonoma-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Balzari, C. P. 1855 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

C. P. BALZARI, dairyman at Woodland, was born July 4, 1855, in Switzerland, of
which country his parents, James and Constance (Mattie) Balzari, are also
natives; the father, who has been a merchant most of his life, is still living
there. When our subject was twelve years of age, he and his father came to
California by water, landing at Petaluma, where he was engaged in the livery
business until 1878; then he worked on a farm at Elmira, Solano County, until
1880, when he moved near Madison, Yolo County, and followed farming there until
the next year, when he came to Woodland and started his present dairy ranch,
where he keeps seventy head of cows and is the leading dairyman in that
locality. He keeps the finest grades of stock. His gross income is $500 per
month. He has 240 acres of land near Cottonwood in Shasta County, and twenty
acres in Willow Oak Park, Yolo County.

  He was united in marriage, December 23, 1876, in Yolo County, with Eva A.
Merrell, a native of Michigan, born November 18, 1858, the daughter of U. P. and
Almira (Finch) Merrell, her father a native of Connecticut and her mother of
Michigan. They have two sons: Charles W., born July 7, 1878, and Robert A.,
January 2, 1884.


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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