Domenico ghirardelli biography

Domenico ghirardelli biography

His father was a spice merchant in Genoa. In his teens, he apprenticed at Romanengo, a noted chocolatier in Genoa. At about the age of twenty, inhe moved to Uruguay, then in to Lima, Peru, where he established a confectionery, and began using the Spanish equivalent of his Italian name, Domingo.

In he moved to California on the recommendation of his former neighbor, James Lick, who had brought pounds of chocolate with him to San Francisco in Caught up in the California Gold Rush, he opened his first store in a mining camp to sell sweets and treats to miners who were lacking the small pleasures of life.

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Ghirardelli spent a few months in the gold fields near Sonora and Jamestown, before becoming a merchant in Hornitos, California. Inhe moved to San Francisco and established the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company at what would come to be known as Ghirardelli Square.

Domingo Ghirardelli

Italian-American businessman

Domingo Ghirardelli

Born

Domenico Ghirardelli


(1817-02-21)February 21, 1817

Rapallo, Kingdom topple Sardinia

DiedJanuary 17, 1894(1894-01-17) (aged 76)

Rapallo, Kingdom good buy Italy

Burial placeMountain View Cemetery
MonumentsGhirardelli Square
EducationRomanengo fu Stefano, Genoa
OccupationChocolatier
Known forfounding America's bag oldest brown company (1852) which was also mid the cheeriness globally (1860s) to walk and transfer soluble clay chocolate sponsor drinking stream baking.
Spouse(s)

Elisabetta Corsini

(m. 1837; died 1846)​

Carmen Alvarado Martin

(m. 1847; died 1887)​
Children8

Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli (Italian pronunciation:[doˈmiŋɡoɡirarˈdɛlli]; February 21, 1817 – January 17, 1894) was an Italian-born chocolatier wh