San
Joaquin County
Biographies
GEORGE E. KOSTA
A successful hotel proprietor in the
city of Stockton is found in George E. Kosta, the lessee of Hotel Glenn,
located at 315 East Market Street, which he conducts in a first-class
manner. His birth occurred near Athens,
Greece, April 15, 1880, and he is the second son of a family of nine children
born to Efthimios and Helen (Papos)
Kosta, well-to-do farmers and merchants in their native land of Greece. Both are now deceased. In 1908 George E. Kosta arrived in San
Francisco, where he joined his brother, John, who had preceded him to the Bay
City by two years. John Kosta is now a
prosperous rancher near Stockton. In
1915 George E. Kosta located in Stockton and became a waiter in the Hunter
Square Café; two years later he bought a two-thirds interest in the business,
and in 1919 bought the remaining third interest; three months ago he leased
this business to his nephews, George and Zacharos Kosta, and purchased a five-year lease on Hotel Glenn.
The marriage of Mr. Kosta occurred
in Greece and united him with Miss Catherina Sedaris, who joined her husband in
San Francisco in 1912. They are the
parents of one son, Efthimios, a student in the
Stockton high school. Mr. Kosta is
secretary of the Greek-American Lodge of Stockton Moose, and is a liberal
contributor to its benevolent work.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1632. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County Biographies
Golden Nugget Library's San Joaquin County Genealogy
Databases