Sacramento County Biographies

JOHN BONETTI

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SUTTER TOWNSHIP. 
Page 276.

	hotel keeper, farmer and viniculturist; lives on upper Stockton 
road about three miles distant from Sacramento his Post Office; owns one hundred 
and twenty acres of land; born in Switzerland in 1832, lived there until 1855 
and learned the carpenter trade. July 31, 1855, left the city of New York for 
California via the Isthmus of Panama; arrived in Sacramento November 1, 1855; 
followed mining for two and one-half years near Sonora, at Placerville, and in 
Tuolumne County. In 1858 moved to Sacramento and opened a cigar and fruit store; 
after a business of three days his place was burned; he then moved to his 
present location and followed the dairy business for four years, then gave his 
attention to farming and vine growing; he has 22,000 grape vines, comprising 
thirty-three varieties, planted on thirty acres of land. The hotel is a fine 
building; in connection with it he runs what is said to be the best saloon in 
the county outside of Sacramento; at his place there can always be found a fine 
stock of wines, liquors and cigars. Married Miss Laura Ballard in 1861; she was 
born in Indiana; they have one son, aged thirteen years. A view of his place can 
be seen elsewhere. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.