page_title: Lloyd Raffetto
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Lloyd Raffetto / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Bell Tower, Placerville
context_page_description: Lloyd Raffetto also known as Lloyd A. Raffetto, Lloyd Alexander Raffetto, and "Raff", was a noted Italian-American-Irish-American co-inventor of an ice cream manufacturing process, entrepreneur, and banker who owned the Raffles Hotel and co-founded the Mother Lode Bank, both of Placerville, California.
context_section_description: Lloyd Alexander Raffetto was born on December 27, 1897, in Placerville, California.  His parents were John Augustus Raffetto Sr. and Adela Creighton Raffetto.  He was the eldest of four surviving children, followed by Michael Raffetto, John Augustus Raffetto Jr., and Isadeen Adela Raffetto (future wife of Alexander Howison Murray Jr..  He attended El Dorado High School and the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and manager of the agricultural journal.
caption: Bell Tower in Placerville, California, where Raffetto lived lifelong
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