San Diego County Biographies
 
G. RAFFI

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was born at Fontana Chiosa, Italy, November 11, 1845, his parents being natives 
of Italy. Being an enterprising boy he left his native country at the age of 
twenty-one years and came to America, landing at New York and starting 
immediately for the Isthmus, taking the steamer from there to San Francisco, 
where he landed after a comfortable voyage. He found friends there and with them 
went to Colterville, Mariposa County, where he followed placer mining, at which 
he met with
no more than reasonable success. In 1868 he left the mines and went to Snelling, 
where he entered service as clerk, but after two years he went to San Diego city 
and immediately opened a grocery and fruit store on the plaza, changing his 
location as the city advanced and improved until 1886, when he came to his 
present stand at 557 Fifth street. He carries a stock of fine groceries, valued 
at about $8,000.
        Mr. Raffi married Mary Verlague April 8, 1882. She is a native of 
France, but then resided in San Diego. They have three children, two daughters 
and one son. Names in order of birth being: Italie, August and Elizabeth.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  274