History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches 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, 1923, Part 113

Author: Reed, G. Walter
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1026

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At Sacramento, in the year 1919, Mr. Rouse was married to Miss Ruth Garrison, a native daughter of that city, and they are now the parents of a son, Allan Preston. Mr. Rouse belongs to Sacramento Camp, No. 61, American Legion. Fraternally, he was made a Mason in Union Lodge, No. 58, F. & A. M., Sacramento, and is a member of Sacramento Lodge, No. 6, B. P. O. Elks. He is a member of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, and of the Lions Club, the Sutter Club, and the Auto Dealers' Associa- tion of Sacramento, and is also affiliated with the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. He is a real baseball fan, and is fond of outdoor life and sports generally.

SAMUEL W. CROSS .- California has never been more fortunate in her distinguished members of the bar than through those attorneys forming the legal fraternity in Sacramento County, prominent among whom may well be named the Hon. Samuel William Cross, the able and popular referee in bankruptcy, a Tennesseean by birth, but a Californian by adop- tion. He was born in Manchester, Coffee County, on April 28, 1881, entering the family of Samuel A. Cross, a business man, and his good wife, who was Miss Anna Blanhon before her marriage. Both of these good people, who were highly esteemed for their traits as citizens, neighbors, friends, are now resting from their earthly labors.

Samuel W. Cross profited by the high school as well as the lower educational courses, and on com- pleting his studies, he went into business and worked for some years. He then attended the University of Tennessee, where he studied law; and in 1910 he was admitted to practice at the Tennessee bar. He was next associated with the attorney general of the state in research work, so that when he came to California in 1912, he had profited by an unusual experience. The same year, he came to Sacramento; and the following year he helped to form the partner- ship of Hughes, Bradford & Cross, made up of J. R. Hughes, Hugh B. Bradford and S. W. Cross, in which undertaking he has been very successful. For two years and a half he was assistant city attorney of the city of Sacramento. He is now and for six years past has been Referee in Bankruptcy, U. S. District Court. He is a Democrat, and as such is influential in the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, always working for the broadest creed and aim.

In 1897 Mr. Cross was married to Miss Charlotte Allume of Georgia, a talented, patriotic lady who was very active in all the war drives. One child, Samuel, has blessed their union. Mr. Cross belongs to the Elks and the Eagles; and he is also a member of the Del Paso Country Club.

JAMES A. GIBSON .- A New Yorker who has made good as a dairyman in the Golden State, is James A. Gibson, of Wilton, who was born on Janu- ary 11, 1855, in Brooklyn, across East River from the American metropolis. His father, Alexander Gibson, a native of the North of Ireland, married Miss Jennie Davis, also from that country; and as a hard-working laborer he sought to provide for a family of ten chil- dren, two of whom are still living, James and Wil- liam. Mr. Gibson passed away at the age of forty- five, and his devoted wife at thirty-five, in Kane County Ill., whither they had moved in 1856.

When James Gibson was eleven years old, he started out to make his own way in the world. He soon found that he had to work hard, commencing on dairy ranches; and he has followed dairying more or less ever since. He grew up in Kane County, Ill., and worked on farms near Elgin, and for three years drove a milk wagon in Chicago. In 1874 he came West to the Pacific Coast, and on reaching California, settled in Sacramento County; and since then he has spent all of the intervening years within eighteen or twenty miles of his present home at Wilton. He purchased sixty-four and one-half acres of land near Wilton Station, and there he has carried on general farming, with a dairy of about twenty-five cows. He is a Republican in matters of national political moment, but a good non-partisan booster for everything of paramount concern to Wilton and Sacramento County. He is a past grand of the Odd Fellows, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Galt. Both he and Mrs. Gibson are members of the Rebekah Lodge.

Mr. Gibson was married for the first time at Sac- ramento, in September, 1883, when he became the husband of Miss May Derr, a native of Elk Grove and the daughter of Henry Derr, who was a farmer. One son, Percy Gibson, blessed this union. In the same city, in October, 1890, Mr. Gibson was married to Mrs. Margaret Bell, who was born in San Joaquin County, the daughter of Patrick Gleason. He was a pioneer merchant of Stockton; and his wife, Mrs. Gibson's mother, died when Margaret was an infant. Another son blessed this second marriage, Elmer C., who assisted his father in agricultural pursuits, and is now foreman of a ranch at Clarksburg. He mar- ried Miss Madge Iola Hooper, a native of Humboldt County, California, and the daughter of William and Effie Hooper. They have one son, James.

CLINTON E. HARBER .- As a worthy represent- ative of the bar in California, Clinton E. Harber is one of those exceptionally gifted and preeminently accomplished gentlemen who would do credit to any generation, or to any community, in which they might be placed, and who could not fail in any pro- fession they might enter, to attain to more than ordinary success. He is the junior member of one of Sacramento's most prosperous law firms, and with his honored associates, enjoys the esteem of a wide circle of clients.

Clinton E. Harber was born at Sacramento on February 15, 1888, the son of George Edward Har- ber, now deceased, of Des Moines, who had married here Miss Mary Nicolai, of Wisconsin, who is the center of a very devoted group. Owing in part to the intellectual life of the family circle, Clinton was given every grammar and high school advantage; and when he came to take up the study of legal lore, he read the law with Messrs. White & Miller. On July 2, 1909, he was admitted to the bar, to practice law in California, and after that he was a clerk under Clinton L. White, when the latter was mayor. He joined Messrs. White, Mfiller and Mclaughlin as a law clerk, and when this firm was dissolved, he asso- ciated himself with Messrs. White, Miller and Need- ham, and helped to form the firm of White, Mfiller, Needham and Harber. He has been three times on the executive committee of the county bar association, he also belongs to the state and American bar associa- tions, and, believing in extending his professional in-

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fluence where and when most helpful in the commer- cial world, he is a director of the Chamber of Com- merce. He marches under the banner of the Repub- lican party, and he is one of the best boosters for Sacramento, city and county.

At Sacramento, on May 14, 1908, Mr. Harber was married to Miss Minerva Bell, a daughter of Henry Clay Bell, of Oroville, and they are now happy in the parentage of three children, Edith, Clarice and Margaret, all of whom are still pupils in the schools. He has been one of the most active promoters of the Del Paso Country Club, and is fond of fishing and golf. Few men, indeed, enjoy a more deserved pop- ularity, and few carry their honors so modestly and well. Mr. Harber is a member of Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., of Sacramento, Sacramento Chapter No. 3, R. A. M., Sacramento Commandery No. 2, Knight Templars, and is a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Sacramento.

LESTER POOL GARDINER .- An enterprising business man, in whom the people of the community have such confidence that the public has become the greatest asset to him and the important commercial concern he represents, is Lester Pool Gardiner, the able, far-seeing manager of the popular general mer- chandise store of the Gardiner Company at Isleton, where he was born, on October 3, 1891. He is a son of Philip Hogate and Ida (Pool) Gardiner, whose stimulating life-story is elsewhere sketched in this historical work.

Lester Pool Gardiner attended the grammar school at Isleton and the Sacramento high school. When he had finished his formal schooling, he identified him- self with the Gardiner Company of Isleton, and its numerous interests there. He was among the first to respond to his country's need, when the World War involved the United States, and in August, 1917, he entered the American Army, and was sent to Camp Lewis, where he was placed in the 364th Am- bulance Corps. He trained there until July, 1918, and then went overseas to France with the 91st Di- vision, via New York, Southampton and Cherbourg. He served as a private in this contingent until May, 1919, and was then honorably discharged, upon his return to the United States. He took part in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and the Lys-Scheldt offen- sive in Belgium.

Since coming back to Isleton, Mr. Gardiner has been manager of the General Merchandise Store of the Gardiner Company, and he also looks after the town properties of the estate. He is a director in the Bank of Isleton, and politically he is a Republican.

Mr. Gardiner was married at San Francisco, on July 10, 1913, to Miss Esther Alice Beckman, a na- tive of Sacramento, and their fortunate union has been blessed with the birth of two sons, Lester Pool, Jr., and John Wilbur. Mr. Gardiner is a member of Franklin Lodge No. 143, F. & A. M., at Courtland, and is a past master; and he is also a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., in Sacramento, and with his wife is a member of Onisbo Chapter O. E. S., at Courtland. Mrs. Gardiner is a member and past noble grand in Hogate Rebekah Lodge at Isleton. Mr. Gardiner has been a director in the Isleton Chamber of Commerce since the time of its organization.

CASPAR HAUSER .- What progress has been made in the science of bee-keeping in California is well illustrated by the successful operations of Caspar Hauser, a native of Switzerland, and now one of the best-known apiarists in Sacramento County. He was born on July 8, 1868, when he entered the family of Adam and Catherine Hauser, esteemed old-timers of their native land, who lived and died there, never having crossed the seas to see the Golden State. They lived useful lives, and passing on, left the world the better for having been in it.

Caspar attended the famous schools in Switzerland, and at the age of twenty set out for the New World. Having already mastered agricultural work, he found no difficulty, when he reached Sacramento, in securing employment, although for some years he found hotel work more remunerative. Thereafter, for some time, he was in the fish business; but in 1901 he took up bee-keeping, starting with six colonies, and gradually increasing his stock, so that now, with the aid of his two sons, he is looking after some 1,700 colonies. In 1913 the father and sons produced forty tons of honey, and today they are members of the Honey Exchange. They produce almost exclusively comb honey, and of late have sold their output entirely in the Valley. Mr. Hauser is a vice-president of the State Bce-Keepers' Association. In politics, he is a Socialist.

In 1894, Mr. Hauser was married to Miss Christina Walter, who also, as a girl, came from the old coun- try; and their union has been blessed with five child- ren: Fred C., George W., Henry L., Bernard W., and Christina A. Hauser. Mr. Hauser is a home man; but he finds enjoyment in participating in the social gath- erings of the Knights of Pythias, with whom he is affiliated. Fred C. Hauser was in the naval aviation corps, in France, during the World War; and George WV. was in the naval camp, but did not succeed in get- ting into action, across the seas.

THOMAS EDWARD COYLE .- It is fortunate for California, considering the important part played in her history by the pioneering railroads, that such a man as Thomas Edward Coyle, widely known as the progressive superintendent of the Western division of the Western Pacific Railroad, is actively identified with the development of the great Pacific common- wealth. He was born at Port Allegany, Pa., on October 17, 1875, the son of Owen Richard and Mary (Kelly) Coyle, worthy settlers who were na- tives of the staid old Keystone State. Mr. Coyle has been gathered to his fathers, having rounded out a very useful and an honorable career; and Mrs. Coyle continued to live at Tacoma, Wash., the object of tender devotion on the part of a devoted circle of friends, passing away there in 1922, at the age of seventy-three.

Thomas Edward Coyle was fortunate in attending both the grammar and the high school, and then he went to work on the railroad as a telegraph operator, and then as a station agent. In time, he was promoted to be train despatcher, and then he was made chief despatcher, and next he became assistant superintend- ent on the Northern Pacific Railroad; and from the Northern Pacific he came to the western division of the Western Pacific. In 1920, he was appointed super- intendent, with headquarters at Sacramento.

Mr. Coyle is a typical railroad man, and as such takes a very live interest in both the historic past and

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the promising future of Sacramento, and never neg- lects an opportunity to cooperate in the building up of both town and county. He belongs to the Pro- gressive Business Men's Club and also to the Y. M. C. A. Under the banners of the Republican party, but with broad sympathies for non-partisan movements for local aims, he seeks to support the best men and the best measures.

On May 22, 1898, at Ellensburg, Wash., Mr. Coyle was married to Miss Alice Cunningham, a native daughter of San Francisco, who shares with him the social life of the Masonic and Elks orders, to which he belongs.

EDWARD PARRAMORE HUSTON .- A repre- sentative business man of Sacramento, well and favor- ably known in commercial circles far beyond the confines of city and county, is Edward Parramore Huston, of the popular firm of Elliott & Huston, dealers in real estate and insurance. He was born at Knight's Landing, on March 14, 1873, the son of Walter S. and Sarah (Laugenour) Huston, of North Carolina, while Mr. Huston came from Missouri. He reached California, after crossing the great plains, in December, 1849, traveling by the Santa Fe trail, and then he journeyed by means of the steamer "Sena- tor," from San Francisco to Sacramento. He mined for a while, and then settled in Yolo County, in 1850; and taking up farming, he also engaged in mer- cantile pursuits at Knight's Landing. In 1878, he came to Woodland, in Yolo County; and held various offices of public trust in Woodland and Yolo County, and died there in 1893, leaving behind him an excel- lent record. Mrs. Huston is still active, and enjoying life to the full. Among their children, W. S. Huston is in the stationery business at Woodland; and Ar- thur C. and H. L. Huston are attorneys; while Ber- tha L. Huston has become the wife of J. L. Hare, an attorney of Woodland.

Edward P. Huston got such schooling as he could in a youth busy enough with the problems of prema- ture earning, and then he went to the Hesperian Col- lege, in connection with the Christian Church, and to the Woodland Business College. His first position when he was ready to do something was with Ed. E. Leake, on the Woodland "Democrat," which he held until 1896, and after that he engaged in the general insurance business in Woodland, and met with success, and was also secretary of the Wood- land Chamber of Commerce for several years, and served as city trustee for five years. In 1905, he took up life insurance as a specialty, and accepted the managership of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company for northern California, and came to Sac- ramento; and in 1906, he resigned, and joined G. S. Turner, in the real estate business, and was after- wards with the J. G. Carly Company, retiring from their service only in 1920, when he purchased a half- interest in the firm of Elliott & Huston, and became a partner of Arthur W. Elliott.

In 1895, Mr. Huston was married to Miss Vena A. Joslyn, of Woodland, born in Vermont, who came to California as a girl, the daughter of Henry S. and Althera L. Joslyn. Two children have blessed this union. Arloa J., the eldest, is married and has be- come Mrs. Marion L. Daviess, and they have a daugh- ter, Jeanette A .; and Elizabeth is at home. Mr. Huston belongs to the Masons, the Knight Templars, and the Shriners.

CORNING DE SAULES .- An efficient, success- ful and influential citizen, whose wide experience and especial adaptability to the peculiar demands of his responsible position have benefited the commercial and financial life of this state, is Corning de Saules, who was born on October 28, 1880, at Washington, D. C., the son of Julius Edward and Cora Hamilton (Corning) de Saules. The father, a professional man, is residing with his beloved wife in Sacramento.

Corning de Saules was educated in the public schools, although he obtained the greater part of his knowledge through private study of accounting and in the practical school of experience. His first posi- tion was as a ledger clerk in the Chesapeake & Poto- mac Telephone Company. Through his keenness and ability, he worked to the position of voucher clerk. From 1902 to 1904 he was employed in the offices of Geary Brown & Company, certified public account- ants in New York City, then for one year he was the auditor of the National Correspondence Schools, at Washington, D. C. While serving this concern he gleaned much information which proved of untold value during his later life. He engaged in the prac- tice of public accounting in Washington and practiced for two and one-half years. In 1908 he was em- ployed by the United States Department of Justice, as a special agent, continuing until his resignation in 1909, when he came to California. On his arrival in the Golden State he was employed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company as an assistant to the auditor. In 1911 he resigned and became asso- ciated with Herbert M. Brace, a certified public ac- countant in San Francisco. In 1912 he became an accountant on the Board of Control for the State of California and soon worked up to the position of assistant superintendent of accounts and in 1917 was appointed superintendent of accounts. On January 5, 1923, he was appointed city controller of Sacramento.

Corning de Saules was united in marriage to Imo- gene Violet Belshaw, a native daughter of Antioch, Cat., in 1911. They are the parents of three children: Jeannette Elizabeth, Corinne B. and Margaret Eliza- beth. Politically, Mr. de Saules adheres to the Re- publican party. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Exchange Club. Mr. de Saules has won the respect and good-will of all his associ- ates, and many years of activity for the public good have established his name among the high-minded, dependable, and successful men of California.

LUPPE BARNES LUPPEN .- A highly-trained, widely-experienced and aggressively progressive busi- ness man is Luppe Barnes Luppen, senior member and president of the firm of Luppen & Hawley, at 906 Seventh Street, Sacramento. He was born at Pekin, I11., on July 5, 1883, the son of Conrad and Alice Rosella (Barnes) Luppen, worthy parents still living in Sacramento. They were decidedly in favor of the best educational advantages, and so sent their son, Luppe, to both the grammar and the high schools at Pekin, after which he passed three years in Europe, taking special work there in noted schools. When he returned to America, he matriculated at the University of Minnesota; and after a year, he shifted to Cornell University, where he finished the junior year. While there, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

His strong bent for practical work led Mr. Luppen to come West to Chicago and join the staff of the Western Electric Company, engaged in outside con-

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struction work; and he had charge of various under- takings for them. Coming on to the Pacific Coast, Mr. Luppen engaged with Messrs. C. C. Moore & Company, of San Francisco, for the crection of two cyanide plants at Millers, in Esmerelda County, Nev., a responsible assignment engaging him for a year and a half; and he established a reputation for ability in the operation of power plants and general outside work. He next entered the employ of the Pacific Improvement Company, and then he was with the consulting engineer of the Palace Hotel work, at San Francisco, and after that with the state depart- ment of engineering, doing mechanical drafting for state buildings.

Returning to San Francisco, Mr. Luppen was with Mr. Tharp, city architect of the city of San Fran- cisco, and was appointed mechanical engineer in the Bureau of Architecture, at San Francisco, doing city work, and during that period they erected in particu- lar the Hall of Justice in the bay city. Resigning, he was appointed by Mr. N. Ellery, state mechanical engineer, and worked on state institutions; and when he resigned from that post, he joined Frank C. Kel- scy, the consulting engineer of Portland, Ore., and worked on the Kittitass Reclamation service at El- lensburg, Wash. In 1912, he was again appointed mechanical engineer of the state of California, under Hiram Johnson; and in 1918 he was appointed chief engineer of the state, and had charge of all state buildings, involving new construction to the amount of one and one-half millions, and extensions to the amount of three and one-half millions.

Resigning again, Mr. Luppen set about establishing a business for himself; and in the first year he had all the heating and ventilating contracts for the Fresno high school group, and also for the Hanford high school, and he did much school work all over the state. He still does consulting work for the state; and he has been instrumental in laying out the water-supply system of the Del Paso Club, and in accomplishing much else for the improvement of various localities, adding greatly to the comfort, health, convenience and welfare of thousands of peo- ple. As manufacturers' representatives, Messrs. Lup- pen & Hawley carry a complete equipment for irri- gation and water supply, including the Krogh single and double suction centrifugal pumps, belted and direct connected pumps, Krogh deep well turbines. Krogh multi-stage turbines, Deming triplex and heavy-duty pumps, Deming rotary pumps, Sampson Hyatt bearing windmills, Vaile-Kimes pressure water supply systems, Stover gasoline and kerosene en- gines, motors, pump-jacks, cylinders, hand pumps, casing and pipe; and they also carry a complete mechanical equipment for buildings, including steam- heating systems, hot-water systems, boiler plant in- stallations, high-pressure and low-pressure steam work, power plant equipment, pipe covering, refrig- eration, vacuum cleaning, plumbing, crude oil and distillate burners, air conditioning apparatus, tem- perature control apparatus, sheet-packing, rod-pack- ing, gaskets, etc.

At Sacramento, in 1910, Mr. Luppen was married to Miss Emma Florette Hodgdon, and their happy union has been signally blessed in the birth of four chil- dren, Jeanne, Luppe, Peter and Florette. Mr. Lup- pen is a Republican. He helongs to the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, as well as the Del Paso Club, and is a Royal Arch Mason.

DR. GEORGE JOYCE HALL .- Prominent among the distinguished members of the medical pro- fession in northern California may be mentioned Dr. George Joyce Hall, for several years one of the most popular and successful practitioners at Sacramento. He was born at Gridley, in Butte County, Cal., on June 15, 1888, the son of W. H. and L. J. (Joyce) Hall, the former a business man of Gridley, who came to California about 1886 and opened a general merchandise store, which he conducted until 1919. In February of the following year he passed away, highly honored by all who knew him. Mrs. Hall is still living, the center of a circle of devoted friends.

George Joyce Hall received his elementary train- ing in the grammar school at Gridley, and afterward successfully pursued his high school studies, entering Santa Clara College; and in 1908 he was granted the Bachelor of Arts degree by that time-honored insti- tution. Hc soon after matriculated at the Cooper Medical School, and in 1912 he was the recipient of the coveted M. D. degree. He was fortunate, during this period of his professional preparation, to be as- sociated with, and to study under, some of the most eminent lights in medical science on the Coast, and those familiar with his later work are well assured that Dr. Hall profited by every opportunity.

For two and a half years he practiced with increas- ing success in the bay city, and then he removed to Siskiyou County, where he added to his laurels by four years of advice and assistance to those there in need of the latest and best medical attention. Next he was in Colfax for a year, and then in January, 1920, he came to Sacramento. On July 1, 1921, he was appointed by Mr. Seavey, city manager of Sac- ramento, as health officer, and the arduous and re- sponsible duties of this office he has since continued to discharge to the satisfaction of the public gen- erally. He belongs to the American Medical Asso- ciation, and also to the state and county medical societies: and he is now serving his second year as secretary of the Sacramento County Medical Society. Interested in all outdoor sports, he is especially fond of hand ball. Politically, he has a preference for Republican platforms, but he is too broad-minded and too patriotic not to submerge partisanship when- ever the standards of true American citizenship are at stake.

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History of Sacramento County, California, with biographical sketches 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, 1923, Part 113

Author: Reed, G. Walter Publication date: 1923 Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co. Number of Pages: 1026

Author: Reed, G. Walter
Publication date: 1923
Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Number of Pages: 1026