California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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

Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


PIETRO BERRETTINI.� Near Lucca Toscano, Italy, Pietro Berrettini 
was born, December 26, 1879, and there he received his education in the local 
schools until twelve years of age. His father, Lorenzo Berrettini, had come 
to California and spent several years at Guerneville, Sonoma county, and hav- 
ing concluded to make California his home, he returned to Italy for his family 
and brought them to Guerneville in 1892. After attending school about three 
months Pietro began working around logging camps in Sonoma county. 
In 1899 he came to Usal, Mendocino county, and in 1901 to Ft. Bragg. In 
the latter place he entered the employ of the Union Lumber Company and 
later he worked for the Caspar Lumber Company and still later for the Pol- 
lard Lumber Company. In 1905 he purchased the Lucca Hotel on Franklin 
street near Oak, in Ft. Bragg, where he has successfully conducted a hotel 
ever since. 

In Ft. Bragg occurred the marriage of Mr. Berrettini with Miss Valentina 
Dalpogeto, also born near Lucca, Italy, and to them have been born four chil- 
dren, as follows : Anachetra, Theresa, Jennie and David. Fraternally Mr. 
Berrettini is a member of the Druids, Eagles and Royal Arch. He is a 
public spirited man and enthusiastic in the future growth of Ft. Bragg, to 
which he is lending his best efforts.