San Joaquin County Biographies


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JOHN VINCENT CRAVIOTTO, M. D.
 
        A distinguished member of the medical fraternity in California is John 
Vincent Craviotto, the physician and surgeon, whose fine suite of offices are 
located on North Sutter Street, Stockton. He was born near Genoa, Italy, on 
August 1, 1879, and when five years of age, he was brought to California by his 
parents, who settled at San Francisco. He attended the local schools, and later 
went to St. Ignatius College; and in 1899 he was graduated from the University 
of California with the Ph.G. degree. Five years later, he was graduated from the 
Cooper Medical College, affiliated with Stanford University; and then he 
received the coveted M. D. degree. He was an intern in the City and County 
Hospital and also the French Hospital at San Francisco for a year, and in 
October, 1905, he removed to Stockton and began to practice medicine.
        From the beginning of his professional experience, Dr. Craviotto has not 
only been in great demand as one of the leaders in the Italian Colony of San 
Joaquin County, but he has steadily taken high rank as one of the ablest of 
physicians and surgeons, often called in consultation and for serious cases 
requiring the specialist. He is physician for the Concordia Grove of Druids, the 
Cavalotti Lodge of Foresters, and the Italian Garden Society. He is a member of 
the American Medical Association, and the State and County Societies, and he has 
a fellowship in the American College of Surgeons. He is president of the 
Stockton Italian Club, and belongs to Lodge No. 218 of the Elks, to the Young 
Men's Institute, to the Druids, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the 
Foresters of America, and he is a member of the advisory board of the Bank of 
Italy at Stockton and of the Security Building & Loan Association and for the 
past twelve years he has been a member of the State Lunacy Commission.
        In San Francisco, in 1904, Dr. Craviotto was married to Miss Lydia 
Spadina, a native of San Francisco; and they have six children, all born at 
Stockton: Concessa, Irene, Angela, John Vincent, Jr., Vincent Angelo, and 
Yollanda.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1279       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.