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JOSEPH M. CAMPODONICO
A prominent business man of Stockton
who is also a native Californian is Joseph M. Campodonico, a successful
druggist and an influential banker. He
was born in San Francisco, California, on October 21, 1876; his father, a
vegetable farmer in the Visitacion Valley south of
San Francisco; there our subject was reared and educated, finishing his
education in the schools of San Francisco and St. Ignatius College and
graduated from the University of California in pharmacy with the class of 1896. While attending the university he became a
prominent athlete and was a member of the university baseball team and the
handball team; later he became a member of the San Francisco Olympic Club and
was active in athletics, taking part in cross country races, etc. As a boy he was apprenticed to learn the drug
business with G. L. Carroll, a druggist of San Francisco, and after his
graduation from the university he opened the Central Pharmacy on North Beach,
conducting same successfully until the fire of 1906, when he was burned
out. He then entered the Bank of Italy
as a clerk and while there heard of an opening in the drug business at
Stockton, and on November 23, 1906, formed a partnership with P. H. Denton, and
purchased the Stockton Drug Company, where they built up a large and lucrative
business. Mr. Campodonico has great
faith in the future of Stockton and owns valuable business property in the
city.
At one time Mr. Campodonico was
associated with others in the ownership of a large tract of land in the San
Joaquin Delta district and successfully farmed the same. He is a large stockholder in the Bank of
Italy and a member of the advisory board of the Stockton branch. Mr. Campodonico was elected a member of the
board of freeholders to draft the new charter for the city of Stockton. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce,
the State and National Pharmaceutical Associations, the Stockton Golf and
Country Club, the Stockton Italian Club, the Elks No. 218, and Stanford Parlor
N. S. G. W., No. 76, of San Francisco.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1167-1168. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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