The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 840 

VICTOR CRESCI.

Victor Cresci, a young man of enterprising spirit, now cultivating the Cresci
ranch near Grandview, is a native son of Washington, his birth having occurred
at Prosser on the 11th of March, 1893. His parents were Peter and Mary (Rea)
Cresci. The father was born in Genoa, Italy, and came to the United States in
1876. He was a miner and followed that occupation in New York, in Pennsylvania
and in Michigan. He afterward removed to Butte, Montana, and ultimately took up
his abode in Prosser, Washington, where he arrived about 1888. There he engaged
in business for a time and subsequently went to Roslyn, Washington, where he was
one of the six men who opened up the Roslyn mine. Later he established his home
in Yakima county, about twelve miles north of Prosser and near the present site
of Grandview. There he took up a homestead and timber claim in 1890, securing
three hundred and twenty acres in all. A few days after he had left Roslyn the
mine blew up, killing all the men in it. Fortunately Mr. Cresci had left and
thus his life was spared. About 1897 he, went to Alaska. whore he remained for a
year, after which he returned to Roslyn and in 1901 again came to his ranch.
This he improved and later sold one hundred and sixty acres of it but still
retains a similar amount and is now extensively engaged in raising hay, corn
and potatoes and also handles a considerable amount of live stock. His wife
passed away in Prosser, March 22, 1893.

Victor Cresci was their only child and was but eleven days old at the time of
his mother's death. He acquired a public school education in Prosser and at
Euclid, Washington, and in 1903 he took up his abode upon the ranch with his
father and is now devoting his time and energy to its further improvement and
development. He is numbered among the progressive young agriculturists of the
community, carefully, wisely and successfully directing the work of the farm.

On the 23d of February, 1918, Mr. Cresci was married to Miss Grace Tuttle, a
native of Minnesota and a daughter of James F. Tuttle, a pioneer of Seattle who
later purchased a farm near Grandview. Mr. Cresci was reared in the faith of the
republican party, of which his father is a stanch supporter, but he maintains an
independent attitude in regard to politics. Fraternally he is connected with
the Masons and has taken the degrees of lodge and chapter. In early manhood he
studied assaying and mineralogy, becoming well qualified along those lines, but
decided to take up ranching in connection with his father and now devotes his
entire time to the development and improvement of his place, which is one of the
pioneer ranches of the district. His interests in this direction are extensive
and the improvements which he has made upon the place indicate his progressive
spirit.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.