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was no Colorado Governor White, it is most likely that Jacovetta was in support of Governor Davis Waite (1893-1895) who was a Populist and supported the Miners unions. Jacovetta's admiration of Waite earned him the nickname of "Johnny White" around town. The nickname became so ingrained that he is listed in the 1910 census as "John White" and even passed on the nickname to his son Anthony who was occasionally known as Tony White. Filomena and John Jacovetta in an undated photo from the Louisville Times Bicentennial Edition, 1978. Boulder County directories from 1916 and 1918 show the Jacovettas living at 945 Cannon, an early address number for 1440 Cannon. Filomena Jacovetta died in 1926. John Jacovetta became a naturalized citizen in 1937 at age 69, and lived in the house on Cannon with his daughter Rose until his death the following year in 1938. Upon John Jacovetta's death, Rose continued to live at 1440 Cannon while her brother Anthony (1906- 1986) and his wife Dorothy Vaughn Jacovetta lived a block away at 1440 Front. Anthony was a long- standing member of the St. Louis Church and the Boulder Elks Lodge. He served as Louisville Fire chief in 1942 and was an active member of the Past Chiefs Club for many years. In 1934, Rose Jacovetta (1910-1997) married William Marinelli (1910-2003) and in 1957 they filed a joint tenancy deed for 1440 Cannon. William Marinelli was born in Cumberland, Canada to Ronaldo Marinelli and Sarafina Inama. He, along with his brother-in-law Anthony, worked at the Clayton Coal Mine and the New Washington Mine in Erie throughout the 1930s and 40s. In 1948, Rose's oldest brother Dominic "Plat" Jacovetta opened Plat Packing in Denver, a successful meat packing warehouse and processing plant serving hotels and restaurants. In the 1950s, William Marinelli and both of his brothers -in law, Anthony and William Jacovetta, joined the family business and worked as butchers and machine operators at Plat Packing until retiring in the 1970s. William Jacovetta (1906-1989) had married Edith Slade in 1937 and lived in Denver.