San Joaquin County
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NICHOLAS PETER CHAGAL
N. P. CHAGAL, proprietor of
the Union Restaurant, Stockton, is a native of Austria, born eighteen miles from Ragusa, February 12, 1859, his parents being Peter and Lucy
(Croll) Chagal, the father a trader, farmer and land owner. He spent his
boyhood days in his native country, and on the 10th of September,
1875, he left there for America. On the 28th of October, 1875, he arrived
at San Francisco and has been a resident of this State ever since. He
worked six years with N. P. Milloglav, corner of Pacific and Battery streets,
to December 10, 1881, then started in the restaurant business for himself,
corner of Sixth and Broadway, Oakland. His next venture was Nick’s Oyster House and Bakery
on Seventh
street
between Washington and Broadway streets, in 1884. He next removed to San Francisco and opened a restaurant on Kearny street. There he remained until September 15, 1885, when he
came to Stockton and opened the Union Restaurant, under the Commercial
Hotel. June 15, 1887, he removed the Union Restaurant to its present location
at No. 263 Main
street,
where he has always done a prosperous business. Having acquired property on the
Copperopolis road, two miles from Stockton, he put up handsome and substantial improvements in
1889, and opened a home for public entertainment, which, under the name of
“Nick’s Popular Resort” has already acquired a high degree of popularity.
Mr. Chagal was married in this city,
September 11, 1884, to Miss Mary Endich, a native of Stockton. Mr. Chagal is a member of the Y. M. I., No. 5, and
of the Austrian Protective Society, San Francisco, and Company B, Emmet Guard,
National Guard of California, of Stockton. He has taken an active interest in every movement
calculated to advance the welfare of Stockton. He has
enjoyed almost a monopoly of the base-ball patronage since Stockton has had a professional club, and when the club of this city won the
championship in 1888, he gave the boys and their friends an elegant champagne
banquet. April 1, 1890, he removed to 475 Seventh street, Oakland.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 385-386. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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