Notes for Albert Estanislau PRECIADO

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Notes for Albert Estanislau PRECIADO

Albert Preciado was the first son of Ynganci and Adelaida Moreiga. born in Calavaras County, California in 1867. Since Albert was the oldest, (he was 16 years old when they came to Borden), he was the first to launch out in business. For many years he was an agent for the Singer Sewing Machine Co., traveling in the mountain area and out into the rural areas of Madera, and at one time, had a store in Madera, selling and repairing the machines. Albert also had an agency for the New Your Life Insurance Company for many years. He married and had three children; Ernest, Ramona and Robert.

Ygnacio Preciado: Insights into his personality from diary pages and other evidence such as newspaper reports:

Ygancio was literate in Spanish and always wrote in Spanish (both in his own diary and in his notations in the diary, Carmelita kept of their 1904 trip to Mexico). His handwriting is neat and precise, and his spelling and punctuations are relatively good considering that these were informal records. Evidently he was a quite well-educated man considering the time and place where he was born when literacy was a rare attainment.
He was a precise person:
Over 60 years after he left Mexico, he could recall the exact date he left. In recording his first four children;s births, he noted the day, weather and time as exactly as could be determined. The fact that he noted only the hour of births on the dance posters may imply that he had neither a watch nor writing paper in the mining camps. (It may also indicate that he couldn't tell time). He also later took the trouble to make a neater copy of the original birth documents.

Albert:---May 7, 1867--San Andreas--3a.m. on the dot.
Rudolph:---January 6, 1869--Lone Pine--11 p.m. "a good day"
Ygnacio Jr:---March 23, 1870--Lone Pine--3 p.m. "cold and windy"
Joseph Alexander:---January 21, 1871--Lone Pine--3 a.m. "calm day"

He kept a record in his diary of Charles' epileptic seizures. This was just after Charles had been released from a harrowing 7 weeks in jail after being convicted of embezzlement at his third trial.
(He was acquitted in the first 2 trials in 1914 and 1915 on grounds of insanity-epilepsy, but was convicted and jailed in 1916 and not let out until the appeals court granted him release on bail during the appeals process on grounds of unlawful and excessive punishment of both Charles, who suffered several seasures in jail, and Ben, who had to stay in jail with Charles to care for him.)

Education and learning were important to Ygnacio. In his painted portrait, he is depicted reading a book, probably his choice of depiction or Alex's showing his father at a common activity. His children all graduated from high school, even the girls, an unusual accomplishment for the times.
At least two of his son's received college educations; Albam at Stanford and Henry at St. Mary's College in Oakland, and The University of Santa Clara. One daughter; Carmelita became a teacher.
According to the MADERA MERCURY, Ygnacio Preciado, a quiet elderly man, sat in court every day of Charle's three trials.

Ygnacio's diary entries were fairly bried, noting important events, illnesses, etc. He also recorded his feelings. In April 1916, during Pershing's invasion of Mexico, he wrote vehemently about his love for and loyality to his native land. On September 16, 1916, as reported in the newspaper, he spoke eloquently of his love for Mexico in a speach in Spanish at a Mexican Independence Dal clelbration in Mexico. His heartfelt roots were of Mexico. Others in the family emphasized their "good old Spanish stock" (wording from Madera Mercury report of Lucy's wedding), presumably traceable to the "Californio" Moraga line.

ASSORTED FACTS:
The Preciado ranch was in the "Ripperdan area" (Madera Historian). Accoarding to a Madera old timer, it was located at or near the intersection of Avenue 8 and Road 25. They also had the first electric water pump and irrigation lines on this ranch. Rudolph lived at this ranch. When he was extremely ill for several weeks in 1903, the fact that he was finally recovered enough to "come to twon" was reported in the paper. Rudolph is described in the MADERA hISTORIAN as a Ripperdan-area rancher.
The road leading to the Preciado Ranch was evidently called the "Preciado Road" in around 1910, when the Board of Supervisors made into a public road. (as reported in the Mercury).

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