Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ANDREW MARTIGNONE

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A liberal-minded and loyal-hearted citizen of Yuba County is found 
in the person of Andrew Martignone, who has been a resident of California for 
the past forty-three years.  His birth occurred in the Province of Genoa, Italy, 
April 6, 1852; and his parents, Giovanni and Paula (Parrodi) Martignone, were 
both natives of the same province.  Giovanni Martignone was a farmer; and after 
he passed away, in 1854, his widow reared the family of six children on the home 
place, where they had a hard struggle to earn a living.
            Andrew Martignone attended public school in Genoa, and worked with 
his mother on the ranch until he was twenty years of age.  In 1872 he went to 
Havre, France, and boarded a vessel for Buenos Aires, S. A.  He spent two years 
in the Argentine Republic; and then he came in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn 
to Peru, where he spent one year in the silver mines near Chiletta, receiving 
three dollars per day for his labor.  He saved his money and drifted on to 
Panama, and from there to San Francisco, arriving in 1880.  Locating at 
Camptonville, he engaged in ranching; and there he owns a 160-acre ranch, on 
which he grows valuable timber.  About five years ago he gave a contract lease 
to the Oak Valley Lumber Company, whose sawmill is built on a portion of his 
land, and already 2,000,000 feet of lumber have been cut therefrom.  Mr. 
Martignone also owns mining claims in Yuba County, as well as choice 
first-mortgage securities.
            The marriage of Mr. Martingnone took place in Nevada City, February 
9, 1890, and united him with Miss Anetta Caipuzo, also born in Italy, who 
arrived in California in 1890.  Two sons were born to them:  John, deceased in 
1920 at the age of twenty-seven years; and Marion W., an expert sawyer with the 
Oak Valley Lumber Company.  Mr. Martingnone received his United States 
citizenship papers at Marysville and has since cast his vote for the Republican 
party.  Fraternally, he has been connected with Camptonville Lodge, No. 307, 
I.O.O.F., for the past thirty-five years.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1270-1271