Domingo Ghirardelli
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Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli was an Italian-born chocolatier who was the founder of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco, California.
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Ghirardelli in San Francisco, c. 1862
A selection of Ghirardelli's chocolate in the flagship shop at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, California
Family tomb
Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre rural cemetery in Oakland, California, United States. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859. T
Domingo Ghirardelli
…French-speaking La Parfaite Union Lodge No. 17 in 1869. He died on January 17, 1894 in his native Rapallo, from influenza. His body was buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California, along with the rest of his family. Ghirardelli Chocolate Company…
Millionaire's Row, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California
Panoramic view from the rear of the cemetery, looking out across the San Francisco Bay
View of the cemetery from Charles Crocker's tomb
The statue above Domingo Ghirardelli's mausoleum.