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NICK COPELLO
Well known in both the mercantile
and the financial circles of Stockton is Nick Copello, a native son who was
born at San Andreas, Calaveras County, on June 26, 1876. His father, Joseph Copello, a native of
Italy, came out to California in the early ‘50s, followed mining in Calaveras
and Amador counties, and in 1894 took up his residence in Stockton, where he
conducted the Roma Hotel on Center Street.
He died in 1895. The mother died
in 1906. Of the children born to Joseph
Copello and his wife, who was Benidetti Sanguinetti before marriage, the following are living: Nicholas, Mrs. May Bona, Mrs. Cora Tartaul, Mrs. Fred Rossi, and Mrs. Lyda
Mazza, all of Stockton.
Nicholas, or Nick, as he is
popularly known, was reared and educated in Amador City, and he worked as a boy
in the quartz mill. Coming to Stockton
in 1894, however, with his father, he was associated with him in the management
of the hotel, and later he conducted a restaurant for himself. In 1900 he bought one-third of a block at the
corner of Aurora and Washington streets, and engaged in the grocery business,
and he is at present still interested in that line of trade at that place. He owns valuable real estate in Stockton,
including some California Street property, and also land in Calaveras County, and
he is a director in the Commercial Savings and Bank of Stockton. He is truly a self-made man, who has attained
a large measure of success, mostly through his own efforts, so that the story
of his life may well be an inspiration to other American youths.
At Stockton, in January, 1909, Mr.
Copello was married to Miss Mamie Quirollo, a native
of Calaveras County; and their happy union has been blessed with the birth of
one daughter, Lenora. Mr. Copello is a
popular member of the Stockton Elks, Lodge No. 218, the Red Men, the Eagles,
and the U. P. E. C. A large-hearted,
optimistic American, he is interested in the success of his fellow Americans as
well as in his own advancement and prosperity; and everyone who has any
dealings with him, commercial, financial or social, knows that he is thoroughly
dependable, and that whatever he once has promised to do, that he will perform.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1283-1284. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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