Santa Clara County Biographies


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IGNAZIO MADONNA
 
            Ignazio Madonna is the Superintendent of Farrington�s rancho in 
Ca�ada de los Osos, situated about eight and one-half miles east of Gilroy, 
which contains about 1,800 acres, devoted to farming and stock-raising.  About 
200 acres are put in grain, half wheat and half barley, and at least 100 acres 
more could be easily farmed.  About fifty acres are cut for hay, principally 
barley.  The balance is pasture land covered with clover alfilaria.  The ranch 
sustains about 250 head of stock, chiefly of the Norman grade of horses and the 
Nutwood trotting stock.  The new ranch residence was erected in 1887.
            Mr. Madonna was born in Switzerland, November 2, 1854, his parents 
being Se�or Simone and Mary Madonna.  The subject of this sketch was reared 
there, attending school until fourteen years old and then working on a farm till 
1874, when, at the age of twenty, he emigrated to America and came to California 
via New York.  He located in Calaveras County and engaged in farming and mining 
for four years, and then went to Douglas County, Nevada, ranching there five 
years, and thence to Esmeralda County, where he remained two years.  In March, 
1885, he came to Santa Clara County and entered the employ of William 
Farrington, and in the spring of 1886 went to the present ranch, of which he is 
now the Superintendent.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F., belonging to Genoa 
Lodge, No. 15, in Douglas County, Nevada.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 344-345
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy