Humboldt County, CA Biographies

MARTIN AMBROSINI

Transcribed by:  Carole Barker

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          For many years Martin Ambrosini has been a resident of the state of 
California, whether he was attracted by the good reports he had heard of the 
opportunities for farming and dairying in Humboldt County, numerous of his 
countrymen having already come to this part of the United States to seek their 
fortunes.
          Switzerland is the native land of Mr. Ambrosini, and his birth 
occurred on December 11, 1855, in the town of Lodrino, in the Canton of Ticino, 
where his father, Peter, was a farmer and dairyman.  The father, and also the 
mother, who was formerly Petronella Martinolli, are now both dead, and of their 
five children, Martin, the youngest, is the only one now living.  His boyhood 
was spent on his father�s farm in the Alps region and he received his education 
in the local public schools.
          At the age of twenty years, responding to the law of his county, he 
entered the infantry regiment where he served his time until honorable 
discharged after which he continued to assist his father upon the home farm, 
until the determination to try his luck in the new country led him to leave his 
home for California, a change which he has never found cause to regret.
          May 1, 1882 saw him in Eureka, Humboldt County, California and he 
commenced his career with humble employment in dairies on Bear River Ridge and 
near Ferndale.  When he had accumulated considerable means by faithful work and 
wise economy, Mr. Ambrosini looked about for an investment and in 1895 purchased 
twenty acres on the Island, two and one-half miles from the town on Ferndale.
          This he improved to a great extent, and has engaged in the dairy 
business there since that time, owning a heard of fifteen cows.  The land 
consisting of rich soil, he is enabled to raise large crops of hay and green 
feed, so that all the fodder for his cattle is supplied by his own ranch.  At a 
later date he added to his property by the purchase of thirty additional acres 
on the county road, but this he does not make use of individually, but has 
rented it for dairy purposes to another party.
          Among the oldest Swiss citizens of the country, Mr. Ambrosini is well 
known here as a man of integrity and steady purpose, one whose residence here is 
a benefit to the community where both he and his wife are known for their 
geniality and hospitality.  Mr. Ambrosini�s marriage took place in Ferndale, on 
November 3, 1894, his wife formerly Miss Filomina Giulieri, having been born in 
Cognisco, in the same canton in Switzerland as Mr. Ambrosini, and having lived 
in Humboldt County since February, 1893.
          Mr. And Mr. Ambrosini are the parents of three children, Lillian, now 
Mrs. Biondini of Ferndale; and Ida and Sadie who make their home with their 
parents in Ferndale.  In his political interests, Mr. Ambrosini is an 
Independent.
 
SOURCE:  History of Humboldt County, California - Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic 
Record Co., 1915, Pg. 977-978