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 153

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

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When Mr. Annereau married, in 1911, at San Francisco, he chose for his bride Miss Eva Feuillard, of San Jose; and they have had one child, Delbert Thomas, to add to their domestic happiness. Both Mr. and Mrs. Annereau are public-spirited, and re- joice in seeing this favored part of the state growing so rapidly.

ALBERT EDWARD SALCEDO .- A butcher who knows the ins and the outs of the varied trade, and who has made more and more of a success of both the retailing and the wholesaling of meat, is Albert Edward Salcedo, a native of San Francisco, but now extending the commercial fame of Perkins. He was born on June 26, 1877, the son of Stephen and Carmelita Salcedo, the former a physician who settled in California in the early fifties. He is re- membered as an untiring and exceptionally ahle prac- titioner who alleviated the sufferings, and prolonged the lives of many.

Following his early application to study in the San Francisco schools, Albert Edward Salcedo spent five years at Santa Clara University, and among other subjects, he took bookkeeping. Then he farmed for a number of years, and after that he was in Spreckels' Market in San Francisco, and learned there the butcher business.

First. he went to Freeport, and took charge of the post-office; and while there for five years as a

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butcher, was also deputy constable. As a popular butcher, he was first at the corner of Tenth and J Streets, and then at the corner of Tenth and N Streets; and for several years he was a hop in- spector, on share basis. He next went to Yolo, con- tracting, and farmed to hay, grain and hops; then he contracted plowing with tractors. Six years ago he opened his present shop at Perkins, and the satis- faction he has always given the community has en- abled him not only to continue there, but to continue to increase the volume of business he does. He be- longs to the farm bureau and to the Grange, in both of which organizations he is seeking to forward California agriculture generally.

The marriage of Mr. Salcedo and Miss Emma Smith, of Denver, occurred at San Francisco, in the year, 1890, and has been productive of an interesting family, two boys and four girls. In politics, Mr. Salcedo is an Independent.

WILLIAM H. LAINE .- An experienced, pro- gressive farmer, who has proven that he can also be an enterprising and successful merchant, is Wil- liam H. Laine, of Perkins, Sacramento County. He was born in Iowa, in Anamosa, Jones County, on February 25, 1867, the son of James and Lucy (Garrett) Laine. They came to Sacramento in 1885, and were ambitious and industrious farmers. They are now both dead, mourned by many.

William H. Laine attended the rural school, and then helped on the farm, as most boys did in those days; and since then he has dealt in live-stock. For six years he was with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, in Sacramento, and followed the electrical trade; and then he engaged in the live-stock business. He is fond of outdoor life, and is a devotee of camping.

In 1922, seeing the need of something better to take the place of the tabooed saloon, Mr. Laine opened a store and a parlor for soft drinks; and he added at once to his popularity. He married Miss Cora Harvey, of Monterey. One daughter is named Ethel and is now Mrs. Arthur Cartier, and another daughter, Stella, is Mrs. Charles Hughes, while the rest of the children are Verna, William, Irvey and Edith. In politics, Mr. Laine is an Independent, free from party trammels; and this enables him, when lending a hand to favor any man or measure believed to be best for the community, to exert an effective influence.

W. I. ELLIOTT .- It is fortunate for the motorist of today, when one stops to consider the important interests at stake in the selection and in the mainten- ance of a car, that men of such integrity, experience and enterprise as W. I. Elliott, the well-known dealer in automobiles, are at the various helms. A native of England, where he was born at Newcastle- upon-Tyne, on October 5, 1877. Mr. Elliott has found greater opportunities in America, and he has been privileged to lead in the great work of indus- trial development. Our subject was educated in the county schools of San Luis Obispo, after which he took a course at a business college. From 1898 to 1901, he had charge of the Atascadero Ranch at Atas- cadero, San Luis Obispo County, and then he went back to Stockton, where he was engaged in the auto- mobile business from 1902 to 1904. Removing to

Sacramento, he took the Mitchell agency in 1908. and continued to manage that until 1913, and for the next three years, he sold the Reo automobile. 111 1916, he represented the Chevrolet. In 1908 Mr. Elliott opened the first automobile salesroom at 1217 K Street in Sacramento.

From the start, Mr. Elliott has been unusually suc- cessful, having undertaken to cater to the public's wants with the assistance of only two people; and now he needs forty skilled helpers to meet the ever- growing wants .. His headquarters are at 16th and J Streets, where he built a three-story reinforced con- crete fireproof building, and he handles not only new, but second-hand cars. He has a branch at Marys- ville, and his territory embraces ten counties, Sacra- miento, Yolo, Colusa, Yuba, Sutter, Placer, Amador, Eldorado, Nevada and Sierra Counties. His was the first Chevrolet contract signed in California. He is one of the few old-time automobile men still in the business; and it is natural to find him a live wire and president of the Rotary Club. He is interested in ranching and is a director in the Merchants National Bank at Sacramento.

At Atascadero, in 1901, Mr. Elliott was married to Miss Edna Skinner, of San Luis Obispo, where she was well-known in local social circles; and they have one son, Irving, who is now in the high school. Mr. Elliott farms a little, and when not thus engaged by way of serious diversion, he spends his time with fellow Masons, K. T.'s, Shriners or Elks, or at the Sutter or Del Paso Country Club, as he is fond of golf. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

HARRY G. WATERMAN .- An experienced, pro- gressive plumbing contractor and dealer in gas appli- ances who has come to be widely and favorably known for his success in carrying out to the letter the most extensive, responsible and difficult of con- tracts, is Harry G. Waterman, of 1121 Tenth Street. Sacramento, in which city he was born, on Novem- ber 26, 1878. His father, William F. Waterman, came across the plains to California in 1851, mined for a while, and then teamed to the Nevada country; and for thirty-eight years he was in the pioneer Sperry flour mills, in Sacramento. He had married Miss Emma Smith, who is still living at the age of almost eighty-two. Like his good wife, Mr. Water- man made many friends; and when he died, in 1915, he was widely mourned.

Harry Waterman went to the public schools, and on starting out in the world, he entered the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad, being employed in their shops, and then he learned the plumbers' trade under Waterman, Davis & Curtis, his brother Frank being one of the four. After eight years, however, he engaged in business for himself, opening his own shop as long ago as 1908. He has been phenom- enally successful, getting his full share of the work hereabouts, and has done, among others, the plumb- ing in the Breuner Building, one of the best of the state fair buildings, the Johnson Apartments, and many large residences and flats. He belongs to the Master Plumbers' Association, and to the Builders' Exchange; and in national politics, he is an Inde- pendent Republican. He built his residence where he resides with his family.

When Mr. Waterman married, in Sacramento, April 7, 1909, he chose for his bride Miss Verna B.

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Martin, a native daughter of Sacramento and a mem- ber of an old pioneer family. She is a daughter of George R. and Mathilda (Brown) Martin, who crossed the plains to California in pioneer days, locating in Sacramento County, where Mr. Martin served as peace officer for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Water- man have one child, Dorothy Verna. Mr. Waterman is a Mason, Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M., Sac- mento, an Elk, and a member of Sacramento Parlor, N. S. G. W. Mrs. Waterman is a member of Sacra- mento Chapter No. 190, O. E. S. Mr. Waterman is something of a sportsman, too, and likes hunting and fishing.

NIELS H. LAURIDSON .- Another prominent farmer of Placerville Road is Niels H. Lauridson, who came to Sacramento County in 1869. He has re- sided on his present place since 1887, although owning it since 1883, and now has 460 choice acres. He was born in Denmark, on January 29, 1846, and had the advantages of fair educational facilities, while he was growing to manhood, in his native country. When he was twenty-two years old, he took passage at Hamburg for New York, and from the Eastern metropolis he went to Polk County, Wis., and a short time later, came to California. He not only farmed, but he was one of the organizers and direct- ors of the Sacramento Rochdale Company, and he became a founder and a director of the Farmers' Mu- tual Insurance Company of Sacramento County. Before taking up farming, he had been a carpenter. Mr. Lauridson married, for the first time, Miss Emma Doan, of Sacramento, and on November 21, 1889, he married his present wife, Miss Martha Criswell, who was born in Santa Clara County, the daughter of Archibald and Elizabeth (Kilgore) Cris- well-the latter having come across the great plains and mountains with her parents as early as 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Lauridson are active members of the American River Grange No. 172, of which he has served as master, and in which she has filled vari- ous offices. Mr. Lauridson affiliates with the Indus- trial Lodge, No. 157, 1. O. O. F., of Sacramento, while Mrs. Lauridson is a member of the social and literary organization known as the Thursday Club at Fair Oaks. They have an adopted daughter, Catherine Lauridson.

WILLIAM H. (BILL) FUNK .- An enterprising and progressive manager for Foster & Kleiser Com- pany, who own and operate outdoor advertising plants in over 500 cities on the Pacific Coast, is William H. Funk, who is familiarly known at Bill Funk. Bill's territory covers sixty-one towns, from Modesto to the Oregon line and from Dixon to Nevada. He is a native of the Prairie State, having been born in Bloomington, Ill., over forty years ago.

William H. Funk finished the work of the public schools and then attended the state normal school; and then he studied at the university at Bloomington, 11l. He was next in the theatrical business for a number of years; in each field acquiring more and more valuable experience as the years went by. He was thus well-equipped when, in 1900, he decided to come out to the state called Golden. In 1908, he came to Sacramento, and in 1910 he established an impor- tant service for the placing of outdoor advertising. Not only has he particular gifts for this work, but is ever-hustling, never in any sense behind any of his

competitors; hence he has been phenomenally suc- cessful. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce of Sacramento, the Ad. Club, the Retail Merchants' Association and the Rotary Club, and it is needless to say that he is a live-wire in each.

Mr. Funk was married to Miss Alice Montgomery, the ceremony being solemnized at San Francisco; and Mrs. Funk also counts her friends by the score. Mr. Funk is an Elk, and a Republican; public-spirited and patriotic; and he was active in all the drives during the World War. He is fond of hunting and fishing; but this predilection has in no sense impaired his reputation for veracity, and he is one of the few men whose word is always as good as his bond.

JOHN F. DONAHUE .- Among the younger gen- eration of successful orchardists may be found John F. Donahue, who is the executor of the estate of the late Daniel Donahue, which consists of 300 acres of fine land on the Greenback Highway about sixteen miles from the capital city. He is a native son of California, his birth having occurred on his father's ranch on February 7, 1892, the second son of Daniel and Annie F. (Leahy) Donahue, the former born near the Sylvan school in Sacramento County on June 5, 1859, and the latter born in Boston, Mass., in 1860. Daniel Donahue was a man of sterling worth and his active career was spent in the develop- ment of a fine orchard. The parents of our subject are both deceased and are survived by three sons and six daughters.

John F. Donahue began his education in the Sylvan public school and in 1912 was graduated from the Sacramento high school; he has always been asso- ciated with his father in ranching, but since the death of his parents has handled the estate left by them, as executor. The ranch property embraces 300 acres, sixty acres of which is in orchard of almonds, French prunes and wine grapes; the ranch is equipped with a modern drying yard for fruit. Fraternally, Mr. Donahue is a member of the B. P. O. Elks and Knights of Columbus of Sacramento.

HAROLD DIXON .- The brief story of the prog- ress and success of Harold Dixon, a prosperous plumbing and steam heating contractor of Sacra- mento, is both interesting and illuminating, showing what may be accomplished by steady application. industry and well-directed energy. He is a native son of the Golden State, born in Eldorado County, October 7, 1882, a son of W. H. and Mary E. (Ward) Dixon, the former a native of Australia, who came to the United States and California at the age of thir- teen years, and the latter a native daughter of California; both are still living.

Harold Dixon received his education in the gram- mar and high schools of Auburn, and while still in his teens learned the plumbing trade and a number of years were spent as a journeyman plumber. With the money he had accumulated he settled in Sacra- mento and on April 1, 1907, established himself in business. Among the most important contracts done by Mr. Dixon are the Utah Milk Condenser building, located at Galt, Cal .; the Goddard Theater; the Cali- fornia Almond Growers' building; the Crystal ice plant; Hotel Arbuckle; the Gridley grammar school building and the Kohler Apartments. Besides these Mr. Dixon has completed the plumbing and heating

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contract for many fine residences throughout the city; he also had the contract for the plumbing and heat- ing of the Del Paso Country clubhouse. Mr. Dixon is popular in business circles and is vice-president of the Sacramento Builders' Exchange. He is past presi- dent of the California Master Plumbers' Association; is ex-vice-president and ex-secretary of the State Builders' Exchange and president of the Master Plumbers' Association of Sacramento; he is also a member of the Exchange Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Dixon is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a charter member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and of the Sciots. Mrs. Dixon is a matron of the Sacramento Chapter, O. E. S., and member of the Daughters of Nile. Mr. Dixon is also an Odd Fellow and an Elk.

The marriage of Mr. Dixon, in Sacramento, united him with Miss Mary Griffith, a native of Amador County, California, and they are the parents of two sons: Donald A. and Wilbur H. Mr. Dixon is a Republican in politics and during the World War acted as lieutenant during the Liberty Loan drives of his section of the state.

ALFRED GUSTAFSON .- An energetic, experi- enced and very progressive man of affairs in the manufacturing industry in Sacramento is Alfred Gus- tafson, the well-known mill-man, under whose excep- tionally able management the Sierra Mill has become one of the most successful and important industrial establishments in all Sacramento County.

Mr. Gustafson was born in the famed northern European land on July 18, 1883, the son of A. and Anna Gustafson, of whom the latter is still living; and because of their own high regard for education, Alfred was given an excellent training in the public schools. He learned the cabinet maker's trade and learned it well.

In 1902, he crossed the ocean and came out to America, and four years later he reached Sacramento. He was engaged at his trade until May, 1913. when he established his present business, which has steadily grown in popularity and material propor- tions. Now he employs twenty men, and he makes a specialty of first class mill work, and store and office fixtures. The Sierra Mill is located at Twelfth and North B Streets in the vards of the Sacramento Lumber Company, and is equipped with the latest improved machinery for the manufacture of all kinds of mill work. Mr. Gustafson was the sole owner until January, 1923, when he took in Elliott McSwain and Heury Gilbert as partners. Their product is chiefly for the Sacramento Valley, but they also fill impor- tant commissions in other parts of California, the highest compliment, considering the high standards possible and the keen competition in other cities. For about ten years Mr. Gustafson has been a mem- ber of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, and also of the Sacramento Builders' Exchange. Mr. Gustafson is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A .O. N. M. S., of Sacramento, while his wife is a member of the O. E. S. When not too busy, Mr. Gustafson finds relaxation in fishing and hunting.

At San Francisco, in 1907, Mr. Gustafson was married to Miss Josephine Johnson; and their for- tunate union has been blessed with two children, Mil- dred and Stanley by name. Mr. Gustafson is a Re-

publican, but first, last and all the time a patriotic American, appreciating the land of his adoption; and it was very natural that he should take an active part in the various drives during the American participa- tion in the World War.

PAUL M. NORBRYHN .- An enterprising mer- chant who has rendered an excellent service to the progressive and growing community of Rio Linda, is Paul M. Norbryhu, dealer in lumber, builders' mate- rials, hardware, paints, oils, etc. He is the youngest member of the wide-awake town's commercial field, and a true pioneer in the sense that, since his coming here, he has done much for the substantial building up and development of the community and environs. thereby expressing his great faith in Sacramento County. He owns a frontage of 300 feet, where he has recently erected two store buildings, since completing his warehouse and office building, in 1921. He also owns two ranches of five acres each, near the town.

Paul M. Norbryhn was born at Moorehead, Minn., on November 28, 1884, the son of Lodver and Martha Norbryhn, both natives of Norway and sturdy folks, who came to America in 1881. Mr. Norbryhn was a tailor, and he followed his trade at Moorehead, where he died at the ripe old age of eighty-one, highly esteemed by all who knew him and his honest work- manship. He is survived by a widow and two chil- dren, one of whom resides at Moorehead.

Paul Norbryhn enjoyed all the educational advan- tages obtainable in Moorehead, prior to his sixteenth year, when he entered the employ of the Wilcox Lumber Company, at Detroit, Minn., continuing with that well-known firm for eighteen years, becoming later a stockholder, and then, in 191], the elected secretary of the company.

The marriage of Mr. Norbryhn to Miss Laura Lucille Gimblett occurred at Detroit, on July 14, 1905. She is the daughter of James Gimblett, who has resided in Rio Linda since 1921. Three children have blessed their union: Martha, Doris and Jeane. Mr. Norbryhn is a member of the Odd Fellows, of Detroit, and was instrumental in the organization of the Rio Linda lodge of Modern Woodmen of America, in which, since January, 1923, he has served as counsel. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He also belongs to the Farm Bureau and to the newly organized Boosters' Club of Rio Linda, and he is a member of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. In national politics, he is Republican.

D. A. HURLEY .- A progressive rancher with much to his credit in the way of scientific accomplish- ment is D. A. Hurley, of the Elkhorn Road, near Sacramento, who has a trim ranch and orchard of eighty acres. A native Buckeye, he was born in Buffton, Ohio, on July 22, 1861, and left home at the early age of sixteen to drift to the South and West. He learned various trades, and also how to work on a farm; and when he reached Junction City, Kans .. he stayed awhile to try himself out in the painting and paper-hanging business. He also spent much of his early life in Nebraska, but it was not until he took up land in Oklahoma by racing for it, that he could say he had any experience out of the ordinary. He was one of those successful in reaching the goal striven for, and he located 160 acres near Perry, Okla., four and one-half miles northeast of the town. He

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resided there until 1913, and in the meantime added a tract of 160 acres to his first one, and farmed the same to grain and cotton. He served as a county commis- sioner of Noble County, Oklahoma, from 1907 to 1912, and came to be, as a Republican of liberal views, influential in matters of local government.

Mr. Hurley made his first visit to California in 1912, and while on an extended tour of inspection, bought forty acres of land in the Arden district, eight miles northeast of Sacramento. The following spring he moved his family to California, and in the mean- time he developed his raneh, devoting ten acres to an orchard. These ten acres and the home were sold in 1921, and he moved to the Reelamation District No. 1000, where he farmed a tract of land and cleared forty acres, He still owns the remaining thirty acres at Arden. He has done well in the farming of beans and grain in the Natomas distriet, and was instru- mental in organizing the farm bureau in Reelamation District No. 1000. He is now clerk of the board of trustees of Natomas School, and he makes a very popular executive. He has not only done well since coming to the Golden State, but he is first and all the time a "booster" for Sacramento County.

MANUEL PATRICK SOUZA .- Since locating in Sacramento County thirty-six years ago Manuel Pat- rick Souza has become an independent farmer, but not without continued hard work and unfailing cour- age in the face of many obstacles. He was born on the Isle of Pico, Azores, February 2, 1870, a son of Patrick and Marian (Gloria) Souza, natives of the same isle. The parents were farmers and the father died at the age of seventy years; the mother still lives in the old home and is over eighty-three years of age. Three sons were born to them, Manuel Pat- rick, our subjeet, Henry and Joseph. Manuel Pat- rick Souza had no opportunity to attend school, for he was obliged to help earn a living for the family. When he was seventeen years old he came to Cali- fornia and worked for wages on Grand Island for seven years.

On April 22, 1894, at San Francisco, Mr. Souza was married to Miss Mary Ignacia, also a native of the Isle of Pico, and a daughter of Jolin and Rose (Jesus) Ignacia. Mrs. Souza is the eldest of five children, the others being, Marian, Louis, Manuel, and Clara. After his marriage Mr. Souza farmed for himself on Grand Island, but was obliged to give it up and work for wages; he then leased 317 acres which he farmed for two years; then he leased a thirty-acre asparagus ranch for two years, near Ryde; for the next ten years he was engaged in growing asparagus on a 120-acre ranch. He then purchased thirty-six acres one-half mile west of Ryde which he has improved with a residence and other farm buildings; this raneh is farmed to beans. Thir- teen children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Souza: Manuel P., Jr., who was in the 91st Division in the World War and was on the way to France when he was quarantined on account of measles and was transferred to the 81st Division and went to France, where he served for eleven months; Henry P .; Mary, now Mrs. John Meyers; and Louis, Joseph, Marian, William, George, Samuel, Antone, Pauline, Rose, and Ernest. Mr. Souza is a member of the I. D. E. S. of Rio Vista and the U. P. E. C. of the same place.

AUGUST HALLANDER .- A busy and energetic citizen is found in August Hallander, the proprietor ot the Hallander blacksmith and machine shop at Ryde, Cal., which he ereeted in 1906. His birth oc- curred in Sköne, Sweden, August 21, 1875, a son of Olaus and Ella Hallander, both natives of the same country. Olaus Hallander was a blacksmith by trade, which he plied in Sweden to the time of his death. Seven children were born to this couple: Olaus; Sophie; August, the subject of this sketch; Nellie; Kjersti; Emily; and Matilda, the last three being de- ceased.

August Hallander learned the blacksmith trade under his father in Sweden and in 1902 left home for America; he came direct to California and located at Isleton, where he worked at his trade until 1905, when he located at Ryde and the following year built his blacksmith and machine shop. In October, 1904, Mr. Hallander was married to Miss Eva Svensen; and one child was born to them, Lillian Maria. Mrs. Hallander passed away in 1906. On November 26, 1915, Mr. Hallander married for his second wife, Miss Irene D. Anderson, a native of Sacramento, Cal., a daughter of George Anderson.

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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 153

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