California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917
This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

CHARLES BASOLO, of Fillmore, Ventura County, is a native of Italy, and his experiences have 
made him familiar with many parts of the civilized world.
His home has been in Ventura County since 1895, when he started out as a rancher, rented one 
hundred eighty acres in the Santa Clara Valley near Fillmore. He had the energy, the studious 
attention to details, and the thrift characteristic of his race, and from the first he has steadily 
prospered. In 1898 he gave up his first place and rented two hundred nineteen acres across the 
road. He continued his work as a farmer there and in 1908 was able to purchase the land and it 
now comprises one of the best estates in the valley. Twenty acres are planted in lemons and 
oranges. while the rest he uses for the growing of beans and alfalfa.
Charles Basolo was born in Turin, Italy, November 25, 1862. His father was Dominick Basolo. 
His early life was spent on his father's farm, where he remained to the age of seventeen, in the 
meantime gaining the advantages of the schools. On leaving Italy he first went to France and 
afterwards for a time worked in the silver mines of Africa. Later he took up farming near his 
birthplace in Italy, and in 1888 emigrated to America, locating at Decatur, Illinois, where he 
was an employe in the coal mines until he came out to California.
Mr. Basolo was married in Genoa, Italy, to Celestina Paratica on June 23, 1888, and almost 
immediately after their marriage they set out for America and together they have gained a 
substantial fortune in the New World. They are the parents of ten children: Dominick, who is in 
the hay and grain business at Fillmore; Joseph, associated with his father in farming; Mary, 
Mrs. Earle Middleworth of Fillmore; Rose, Mrs. Harry Hastings of Fillmore; Joanna at home; 
Jolena, who is a student in the high school ; Bismark and Charles, both on their father's farm; 
Nellie and George who are still students in the public schools.