San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 11/15/2009
PETER H. DENTONI
Stockton has always been fortunate in its first-class drug stores, among which today that of the Stockton Drug Company deserves mention as in the front rank, its convenient situation, at the corner of Main and Sutter streets, having naturally made it the headquarters for thousands seeking only the best service. The junior partner, Peter H. Dentoni, was born near Genoa, Italy, on August 25, 1879, and when only five years of age accompanied his parents across the seas to America, in 1884, and then came immediately to Stockton. His father, Giovanni Dentoni, followed ranching in San Joaquin County, and so it happened that our subject attended the Stockton public schools and started his business career, delivering packages at the salary of $2 per week. He opened the store at 6:30 a.m., and worked fourteen hours a day.
Growing up, and having chosen the profession of pharmacist, he was graduated from the San Francisco College of Pharmacy in 1900, and after that first worked for Messrs. Kohler & Ghiglieri, who conducted a small drug store on the spot where he is now in business for himself. He then became an assistant to John D. Gray, who conducted the Model Drug Company at 44 East Main Street, in which concern, after a while, he bought a half interest. Selling out, in 1907, he formed a partnership with Joe M. Campodonico, and they bought the Stockton Drug Company. Two years later the partners also bought the Eagle Drug Company, which then had the site now occupied by the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bank Building, and to make way for the bank block they removed to 317 East Main Street. This business they sold, in 1917, to give their entire attention to their rapidly-growing enterprise in their present location. Mr. Dentoni is a member of the State Pharmaceutical Association and the National Retail Druggists' Association. He is a large stockholder in the Bank of Italy and for a number of years was part owner of the St. Catherine ranch in the Delta district, where he was associated with some of the leading farmers of the county in the growing of grain, beans and potatoes. He is a charter member of both the Stockton Italian Club and the Eagles, and he is a member of Stockton Lodge No. 218, Elks; the Red Men, the Woodmen of the World, and the Fraternal Brotherhood.
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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