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EMANUEL TRACHIOTIS
Since 1918 Emanuel Trachiotis has
been the sole owner and proprietor of the Olympia Oyster Grotto located 35
North El Dorado Street, Stockton, where he has built up a prosperous business
and enjoys the esteem of his associates.
He was born at Kranidi, Greece, November 26,
1892, a son of Demetrius and Theodora (Augerinou) Trachiotis. Both
parents were born and reared in Greece and Demetrius Trachiotis is a wealthy,
retired sponge merchant. At the age of
fifteen Emanuel Trachiotis boarded a Greek liner at Pireaus,
Greece, and after a voyage of fifteen days arrived in New York; from there he
went to Canton, Ohio, but soon after left for Stockton, California, where his
uncle. J. Despotakos lived. Emanuel attended the Stockton high
school. He began to work for his uncle
in 1910, who was owner of the Olympia Oyster Grotto and in 1918 he purchased the business and his uncle returned to his old
home in Greece.
On June 5, 1922, Mr. Trachiotis was
united in marriage in Greece with Miss Athanasia Eiconomou, a daughter of Constantino and Helen (Radous) Eiconomou, and the young
couple returned to their Stockton home on September 1, 1922. Mr. Trachiotis received his U. S. citizenship
papers and served in the Army in the cooks and bakers school as mess sergeant
at San Francisco; his service covered a period of eight months and he received
his honorable discharge; he is now a member of the Karl Ross Post of the
American Legion in Stockton and also the W. O. W. In April, 1921, Mr. Trachiotis organized the
Hellenic Mutual Society, a Greek-American fraternity, and served as its first
president for one term; this society now has a membership of 120.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1588-1589. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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