Humboldt County, CA Biographies

JOSEPH CASACCA

Transcribed by:  Carole Barker

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        From the canton of Ticino, in Switzerland, Joseph Casacca came to make 
his home in California, having heard there were great opportunities for young 
men in this new country.  Brought up on his father�s dairy farm in the Alps, 
Joseph Casacca was already well initiated in the dairy business, which he has 
followed industriously and with marked success since coming to America.
          Born in Gordola, Switzerland, March 19, 1872, Mr. Casacca was the son 
of John and Carmilla (Scaroni) Casacca, both of whom are now deceased, and of 
their family of eight children five are now living, namely: Joseph, a dairyman 
in Humboldt County, California; Albert, residing in San Francisco; Celeste, also 
living in San Francisco; Marion, in the employ of the elder brother Joseph; and 
Louis, who remains on the old home farm in the Alps.
          At the age of twenty-one years, having received his education in the 
local public schools and spent some time assisting his father upon the farm, 
Joseph Casacca determined to come to California and in May, 1893, arrived in 
Sonoma County, where for fourteen months he was employed on a dairy at 
Lakeville, in July of the next year removing to Humboldt County where he was 
employed on different dairies in the neighborhood of Waddington for about nine 
years.
          By that time, having saved sufficient money to enable his starting in 
business independently, Mr. Casacca in 1903 leased the Pleasant Point Ranch of 
sixty acres near Waddington, where for a period of five years he conducted a 
dairy of twenty cows.  Removing hence to the Eel River Island he there leased 
the Sam Fulmore place of sixty-two acres of bottom land, where he raises large 
crops of hay, grain, clover, corn, carrots and beets and milks a herd of 
thirty-four cows, all fed upon the estate.
          Besides being a stockholder in the Valley Flower Creamery Company, Mr. 
Casacca is a member of the Woodmen of the World, his wife being a member of the 
Women of Woodcraft.  His marriage took place in Ferndale, his wife having 
formerly been Miss Cora Mead, a native of Oregon and daughter of Alfred Mead, a 
pioneer of Oregon and California now residing at Bridgeville, this county.  Mr. 
And Mrs. Casacca are the parents of three children, by name Mable, Florence and 
Floyd.
 
SOURCE:  History of Humboldt County, California - Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic 
Record Co., 1915, Pg. 977