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From: "Sandra Harris" <>
Subject: [CASONOMA] Isidoro Charles BRAGHETTA in History of Solano and Napa Counties
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:47:02 -0700

To Linda in TN
I have copied the bio and will be mailing it to you shortly.

>From History of Solano and Napa Counties p996
Qc 979.452 G8

ISIDORO CHARLES BRAGHETTA.

A native of Switzerland, born in Canton Ticino, February 22, 1861, Mr.
Braghetta came to this country at the age of twenty, with only a few dollars
in his pocket and no friends to give him more. Coming to California in
1881, he worked on a dairy ranch at Guallala, Sonoma County, where he had an
opportunity to learn the dairying business as conducted in this country. Ten
months later he came to Napa County and for fifteen months worked in a
vineyard on Cedar Knoll ranch, formerly known as the Old Hagan ranch.
Hearing of an opening on a dairy ranch three miles north of Vallejo, Solano
County, he went there and engaged to work for wages. The next important
step was his association in the dairy business with Charles Cantoni, on the
Holyoke ranch of four hundred and twenty acres. For thirteen years they
operated the dairy near Napa Junction, and then, in 1897, the partnership
was amicably dissolved. It had been productive of much good in the
experience of Mr. Braghetta for the two worked together with unanimity of
purpose and profited by the united effort.
In 1898 Mr. Braghetta bought two hundred and sixteen acres of the
Holyoke ranch which he has in wheat, oats and barley, besides which he has
a dairy of about forty cows.
Mr. Braghetta is a member of the United Order of Red Men, Vallejo Lodge,
and is school trustee of Soscol district He was married in 1893 to
Josephine Beltrametti and they have three children: Eliza, Olga and Mary.
Mr. Braghetta is a successful rancher and is honored for
his integrity, enterprise and honesty of purpose.

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