California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

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


G. MIGLIAVACCA.  Was born in Italy. August 16, 1833, where he resided until 1858, learning the trade 
of distiller and wine making from his father. In 1867 he emigrated to California, first locating in San 
Francisco, where he remained for four months. He then moved to Mariposa County, where he 
embarked in the grocery business, and continued till 1866, when he came to Napa County, and for a 
short time engaged in the grocery business. He then began the manufacture of wine, in which he is 
still engaged, and which he has steadily increased from five hundred gallons per year until now he 
manufactures seventy-five thousand gallons. Mr. Migliavacca was married in 1860 to Marie Senorela, 
who was born in Italy May 19, 1843. By this union they have ten living children: Louisa, born June 8, 
1862; John, born July 1, 1864; Henry, born October 10, 1866; Angeline, born December 7, 1868; Clara, 
born October 21, 1870; Sero, born March 26, 1872; Joseph, born June 6, 1876; Minnie, born March 29, 
1878; James, born August 17 ,1879, and Cesore, born December 6, 1880.