Merced County Biographies

CHARLES BIZZINI

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        The name of Charles Bizzini was well-known among the successful 
agriculturists of the Gustine section of Merced County for many years, where he 
located the year prior to the laying out of the town of Gustine. His birth 
occurred in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, November 4, 1855, a son of Rafael and 
Madaline Bizzini, also natives of that country. Charles Bizzini received a 
common school education in Switzerland and when twenty years old came to 
California and settled at Cayucos in San Luis Obispo County, where he worked as 
a ranch laborer; later he removed to Monterey County where he leased land and 
farmed.
        At San Luis Obispo, on September 16, 1885, Mr. Bizzini was married to 
Miss Delfina Dalidio, also born in Switzerland, daughter of Jacimo Pietro and 
Mariana (Filippini) Dalidio. Her father had married in Switzerland and during 
the gold excitement in California came West leaving his family in the old 
country. He mined for twelve years, then returned to his home and there passed 
away at the age of fifty years.  Mrs. Bizzini's mother lived to be seventy-one 
years old. There were four children in this family: Angelina, died in 
Switzerland; Delfina, the wife of our subject; Amelia, still makes her home in 
Switzerland; Theresa, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Bizzini lived in Cayucos for three 
years. In 1906 they removed to Merced County and purchased seventy acres in 
alfalfa just south of where Gustine now stands; here a residence was built. 
Later he purchased a nine-acre ranch on which he built a house and this was used 
as the home place. Mr. and Mrs. Bizzini became the parents of ten children, 
namely: Elvira and Esther, twins. Elvira is now Mrs. Calanchini, and Esther is 
Mrs. Zanini, and has four children, Alma, Louis, Henry, and Walter; Dora is now 
Mrs. Bonta and she has four children, Floyd, George, Mary and Chester. Edward 
G.; Louis Ralph; Clara is now Mrs. McFaul; Amelia is Mrs. De Martin; Albert 
Charles; Rosalie is Mrs. Louis P. Taglio; and Nellie D., a graduate of the 
University of California, taught two years in the Gustine Grammar School and is 
now a teacher in the Gustine High School. Mr. Bizzini passed away at the family 
home July 2, 1917. He was an honored member of the Odd Fellows Lodge of Gustine 
and a good citizen in every sense of the word.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 615-616