San Joaquin County Biographies


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ALFONSE FARETTI.
 
        Among the Swiss-American residents of San Joaquin County, who have been 
successful as farmers and stockraisers, is Alfonse Faretti, the owner of a fine 
140-acre dairy ranch and young vineyard, four and a half miles southwest of Lodi 
on Kettleman Lane. He was born in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, October 3, 1871, a 
son of Jerome and Concordia Faretti, both native of the same country. Jerome 
Faretti was a painter by trade, who plied his trade throughout the country and 
who made frequent visits to Paris, where he was engaged at his trade. There were 
three children in the family: John, who died at the age of forty-two; Mrs. 
Cornelia Roselli, who lives in Switzerland, and Alfonse. The father died at the 
age of seventy years; the mother is still living in her native land.
        At the age of nineteen Alfonse Faretti had finished his schooling and 
set out for the United States, coming direct to California, where he found 
employment on a dairy ranch at Guadalupe, where he remained for three years; 
then he went to Stockton and purchased cows and continued in the dairy business, 
supplying the residents of Stockton daily with milk for three years; he then 
removed his dairy to Ione, Cal., where he operated a dairy for twelve years, 
adding to his herd from time to time until he had forty cows. He then removed to 
the old Castle place on the French Camp Road, which he rented two years. He then 
came to the Lafayette district of San Joaquin County, where he bought 160 acres 
in 1917, twenty acres of which was in producing vineyard, sixty acres in 
unimproved land and the balance in alfalfa. In 1921 he sold the twenty-acre 
vineyard, leaving 140 acres, twenty-five acres of which he has set to young 
vineyard and he also has seventy-five acres in alfalfa; his ranch is irrigated 
by two pumping plants. His political allegiance is given to the Republican 
party.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1515       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.