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JOHN L. BERNADICOU
An energetic and successful business
man of Stockton is John L. Bernadicou who conducts a French hand laundry at 828
North El Dorado Street. His birth
occurred in Arette, Basses-Pyrenees, December 3,
1874, a son of Pierre and Marie (Hayet) Bernadicou, both natives of that place. There were nine children in the family: Valentine, Bernard, Grat,
John Louis, our subject, Marie Theresa, Madaline, Marie Louise, and the two
younger children who died in infancy.
The father lived to be eight-four years old and the mother
seventy-one. John L. Bernadicou received
a public school education, then spent three years in
the French army in the 24th Field Artillery; he then went to Paris
and worked for one year and spent one year at Nojent-sur-Marne. In June,
1899, he arrived in Stockton where he worked for his brother in the French Hand
Laundry at 140 South California Street, later at 224 East Fremont Street; he
then purchased the business and three years ago he erected the modern building
at 828 North El Dorado Street, where he has successfully conducted his business
with gratifying results.
In France in October, 1898, Mr.
Bernadicou was united in marriage with Miss Madaline Pashur, a daughter of John and Anna Pashur,
and they are the parents of four children:
Paul was born in France and entered the U. S. Army in December, 1917,
enlisting at Angel Island; he was placed in the 2nd Field Artillery
and trained three months at the Presidio, San Francisco; then four months at
Camp Fremont; then to Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and in November, 1918, was sent to
France, where he remained until July, 1919, when he was returned to the United
States and discharged at Fort Lee, Virginia, as a first-class private; Alfred, Francis
and Anna were all born in the United States.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1570. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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