California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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


JOE PRANDINI. � A hard-working, energetic Italian who came to 
America a poor boy is Joe Prandini, the rancher and dairyman of Lanare, 
who has made more than $25,000 worth of improvements during the last ten 
years. He has a well-improved dairy ranch of 206 acres at the new town, has 
built two excellent dairy and hay barns, a brick cheese factory and a storage 
cellar of cement, and introduced other up-to-date appliances saving time and 
labor and conducing to sanitary requirements. All his land but twenty acres 
has been put into alfalfa. He is a good manager and has profited through 
personal friendship with John Cerini, the dairyman and capitalist. 

Guiseppi Prandini, was born at Comero, Italy, on June 29, 1877, and in 
that country grew to maturity. His father. Innocent Prandini, had married 
Barbara Trappa. and he busied himself as a farmer and cheese maker. They 
had three children : Silvestro Prandini, a cavalier in Italy, is a dairy inspector, 
having graduated from Italian schools for milk products. Carlo came to Cali- 
fornia three and a half years ago, also a graduate of cheese making and other 
courses, and he is now a cheese maker here. The third in the order of birth 
was the subject of this review. He, too, attended these dairy schools and 
when twenty he was seized with the ambition to make his fortune in Cali- 
fornia, so he crossed the ocean to Canada, and from there made his way to 
San Francisco, landing there on December 15, 1901. He went to Mendocino 
County, thence to Santa Barbara, after that to Hanford, in Kings County, 
and then rented a farm and ran a cheese factory at Guernsey; for seven years 
he was the tenant of H. C. Smith, the cheese maker, near Guernsey. 

In 1908 Mr. Prandini bought 206 acres of land at Lanare, and there made 
all the improvements. He has also put in a steam plant, an artesian well, 
costing $4,200. 

Mr. Prandini has lately leased his valuable ranch and cheese factory for 
three years to his brother Carlo and two associates, Andria Mandora and 
Cardiga Paolin, who have formed the firm of Carlo Prandini & Company. 
He also sold to the lessees about 150 head of live stock, including some 
seventy-five cows and the balance in hogs and horses. In Lanare Mr. Prandini 
built the Lanare Garage building; the store building, the meat market build- 
ing and the ice-cream and confectionery store and a blacksmith shop and has 
put up a large tank house which stores the water supply for Lanare. 

At Hanford Mr. Prandini was married to Miss Rosa Fahccini, a native 
of Italy, by whom he has had four children � Innocent, Peter, Teressa and 
Barbara. When he has completed the changes for his temporary successors, 
he and his good wife will return to Italy and enjoy, among old environments 
and with old-time friends, a well-merited vacation.