San Joaquin County Biographies


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


PETER FILIPPINI.
 
        Since 1900, Peter Filippini has been an enterprising and prosperous 
California citizen, and in partnership with his brother, Osvaldo, is the 
proprietor of the Filippini dairy farm fourteen miles east of Stockton on the 
Sonora Road, where they own 100 acres, sixty-five acres of which is devoted to 
raising alfalfa, besides maintaining a dairy herd of ninety choice Holstein 
cattle. This is the largest dairy in this section of the county, and the 
Filippini brothers have proven a success along this line. Peter Filippini was 
born in August, 1883, and his brother Osvaldo, July 29, 1884. They are both 
natives of Switzerland, sons of Peter and Camelia (Baffa) Filippini, also 
natives of Switzerland. In 1900, our subject left his home in Switzerland and 
came to California, and two years later his mother and three brothers, Osvaldo, 
John and Frank, followed.  Another brother, Joe Filippini, came to California in 
1892, and for the past fifteen years has been a state guard at San Quentin 
prison. The father passed away in Switzerland about twenty-five years ago.
        Arriving in California. Peter Filippini found work on a large dairy in 
Marin County, where he worked for eight years. While residing there he received 
his United States citizenship, and through the years his loyalty to his adopted 
country has never been brought in question. In June, 1914, the oldest son of the 
family died, and soon after Mr. Filippini purchased his property from the widow; 
and as has been stated above, a successful dairy is conducted on this ranch, a 
credit to the locality and a source of fine profit to its owners.
        Mr. Filippini is a Republican in politics and a progressive citizen of 
more than ordinary activity in supporting measures for the prosperity and 
advancement of the Farmington district. Both brothers are men of honorable 
principles and upright dealings.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1573       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.