Kern County Biographies

B. Ardizzi

Submitted by Beverly Green

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

 
B. Ardizzi, of Sumner, Kern County, has been a resident of California since 
1855, and therefore he may justly be classed among her pioneers. He is a native 
of liberty-loving Switzerland and of the Canton Ticino, and born July 31, 1839. 
The extraordinary discoveries of gold in California induced him to come to the 
new El Dorado, which he did by way of the Isthmus of Panama. After following 
mining some four years, first in Tuolumne County, and then in Mariposa County, 
he engaged in the hotel business at Mariposa and in Merced County about three 
years, and then came to Delano, where he remained two years. In 1874 he went 
into the general produce and provision business with a partner, Victor Amy, who 
died in 1881; later he took in his present partner, L. V. Olcese. He has been in 
his present business about seventeen years and has been very successful. Mr. 
Ardizzi is one of the solid business men of Sumner - an honest, conservative and 
influential citizen of broad business views. There is probably not a citizen of 
Kern County who as a social gentleman and a merchant is more favorably known 
than Benjamin Ardizzi. He was married in 1887, in San Francisco.

SOURCE: Memorial and Biographical History of the counties of Fresno, Tulare and Kern, California:
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892 Page 509