Amador County Biographies

SYLVESTER G. SPAGNOLI

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Was born in the town of Rooegro, Italy; came to California in 1854 in company with his parents, 
Deodato and Maria Antoinette Spagnoli, and a brother, D. B. Spagnoli, now a resident of Jackson, and 
settled in Clinton, Amador county, in the month of September, 1854. In 1865 he wert to Owyhee, in 
Idaho, on a mining excursion, returning the same year. On the location of his brother in Jackson in 
the Autumn of 1865, he took charge of the home business, consisting of merchandising, mining, and 
ditching, which he successfully managed. He was married November 23, 1868, to Miss Minnie V. 
Bryant, by whom he has had four children: Stella M. S., now eleven; Clotilde E. S., born in Clinton, and 
Minnie R. S., aged three years, born in Harmon, county of Penobscot, State of Maine. 

Mr. Spagnoli enjoys the confidence and respect of the community, having held the position of Justice 
of the Peace three terms, once in 1876 by appointment, and twice since by election. 

History of Amador, California With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches 
of its Prominent Men and PioneersOakland, California, Thompson and West, 
1881.