California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


LORENZO ALBONICO.� The dairy interests of Round valley have been 
greatly enhanced through the location here of several experienced dairymen, 
and among them is Lorenzo Albonico, who was born in Gravedona, Italy, 
July 25. 1884. From a boy he learned farming and dairying and received his 
education in the public schools of Gravedona. Under his father he learned 
butter and cheese making, but desiring a larger field and better opportunities 
than his home afforded, at the age of seventeen he determined to come to 
America, so in 1901 we find him in Eureka, Humboldt county, Cal. Being 
without means, he immediately sought employment in the line of work to 
which he was accustomed and found employment in a dairy. He continued 
to work at dairying in the vicinity of Eureka until 1907 and then followed 
the same work at Loleta until September, 1912, when he came to Round val- 
ley, Mendocino county, and in partnership with Clemente Cittoni rented a 
two hundred acre ranch and stocked it with a dairy herd, also engaging in 
farming. Land has been sown to alfalfa and they are raising large quantities 
of hay. The milk cows have been well selected and they now have the largest 
dairy in the valley and are demonstrating the great possibilities in the dairy 
industry for Round valley. 

In Loleta occurred the marriage of Lorenzo Albonico and Anita lustoni, 
a native of Buenos Ayres, South America. That was her home until she was 
fourteen years of age, when she went to Italy and afterwards came to Cali- 
fornia. They have two children : Catherine and Joseph. Mr. Albonico is a 
member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Loleta and politically he is a stanch 
Republican.