San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/4/2009
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, in 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 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.
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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