Alameda County Biographies

ANTONIO BARDELLINI

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Was born in Lerci, Italy, and there spent his early life, having, when quite young, 
adopted the sea as a calling, and as such visited most parts of the known world.  The year 1850 
found him in California, and in San Francisco engaged in the fishing business for several years.  
After passing a good many more years in the mines, he went to Mexico, and embarked in the 
drygoods business, and on his return once more tempted fortune in the gold-yielding canons of 
the Sierras.  He once  more, after this period, commenced fishing for the San Jose market, and 
in 1858 opened a general merchandise store at Mission San Jose, where he resided six years, 
when he came to Alisal, now Pleasanton, and opened the first hotel in that place, it being a 
portion of the present Rose Hotel, and then known as the Pleasanton Hotel.  In the year 1867 he 
came to Laddsville, built a hotel there and conducted it for four years, when he purchased the 
ranch now occupied by Mr. Robinson, and set out the first vineyard in that locality.  On the 
destruction of the hotel by fire in 1872, he continued farming until 1874, when he disposed of 
his farm and moved on to his present property, which had been purchased by him some time 
previously, consisting of half a block on the corner of First and L Streets, in the town of 
Livermore, to which many extensive improvements have since been made, all of which have 
developed into the Washington Hotel, one of the leading hostelries in the prosperous town of 
Livermore.  Married in San Francisco October 20, 1862, Maria Lometti, a native of Italy, and has 
four children, viz.:  Joseph B., Corinne J., Furrello J., Emil A.

History of Alameda County, California…, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 842-843