Contra Costa County Biography

LOUIS ARATA

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Prominently connected with the business interests of Crockett is Louis Arata. He 
was born in Italy, December 14, 1850. He acquired a limited education in the 
public schools of his native land, and at the age of sixteen he came to America. 
Remaining in New York City for a time, he then removed to Philadelphia, where he 
worked at his trade of pastemaker for a period of three years. In 1871 he came 
to California and remained in San Francisco for about three months, when he 
removed to Somersville and found employment in the mines. He followed this 
vocation for a few months, and then engaged in the vegetable business until 
1885. Later in the same year he purchased eight hundred acres of land and 
engaged in general farming until 1891, when he disposed of his farm holdings and 
removed to San Francisco, where he resided four years. In 1899 he came to 
Crockett. Mr. Arata was united in marriage to Kate Treaso, a native of Italy, in 
1883. To this union have been born four children. One daughter, Linda Del Monte, 
was drowned in the straits near Crockett. The other children are Silva, wife of 
Edward Prytz, of Crockett; Atilio, who is managing the business in Crockett; and 
Louis, who is attending Santa Clara College. In politics Mr. Arata is affiliated 
with the Republican party. He has served as a delegate to various county 
conventions, and at one time served on the election board. Fraternally, he is a 
member of the Antioch Lodge, I. O. O. F. The family attend the Catholic church. 
Mr. Arata is numbered among the pioneers of Contra Costa County and is well 
known in Crockett and vicinity. 
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
pp. 549-550.