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

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PETER GUIDOTTI.  With the skill, experience and energy of such men as Peter Guidotti the dairy 
industry has made great progress in Santa Barbara County and Mr. Guidotti is one of the most 
prominent men in that business in this section of California.
 
He spent his early life in a country famed for its milk products, having been born in Switzerland August 
20, 1864.  His parents were Louis and Theresa Guidotti.  He attended the public schools of Switzerland 
until he was fourteen and thereafter was employed on dairy farms and vineyards of his native land 
until the age of twenty.
 
Coming to the New World to seek his fortune, Mr. Guidotti located in California at Lompoc, and 
remained there until 1898.  His next location was at Gaviota, where renting some land from the 
Hollister estate he established a dairy farm.  He introduced some first class stock, and with the success 
of that enterprise was encouraged to move to Los Alamos in 1907.  Here he established one of the 
largest dairies of Santa Barbara County and has been conducting it in a highly prosperous manner ever 
since.  He rents 3,000 acres.  In partnership with his cousin J. Guidotti he also owns a 200-acre dairy 
farm near San Diego, but that is under the management of a tenant.
 
In Lompoc in January, 1890, he married Miss Louisa Guidotti.  Their children are named Alfred, Lewis 
Alfonse, Claudina, Josie and Neta.