San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/23/2009
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, Cal., 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 in 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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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