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ANDREW KENNETH HUMPHRIES

 

 

Andrew Kenneth Humphries, president of Pacific Intermountain Express Company and others, was born in Ouray, Colorado, January 28, 1895. He was a student at university of Wisconsin, 1913 to 1917.

            Mr. Humphries formerly was successively assistant to general manager of MacDougall Southwick Company, Seattle, Washington; merchandise manager of Rhodes Company, Tacoma, Washington; merchandise manager of Olds & King, Portland, Oregon; vice president and general manager of Pacific Air Transport Company, San Francisco, California; vice president of Boering Air Plane & Transit Company, Seattle, Washington; assistant to the president of United Air Craft Corporation; president of Sonora Products Company, and Vitab Products Company, Emeryville, California.

            At present, Mr. Humphries is president of Pacific Intermountain Express Company, Intermountain Terminal Company, and Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc., producers of rock, sand and gravel, San Francisco, since 1938. Also director of Truck Insurance Exchange in Los Angeles.

            During World War, Mr. Humphries served as lieutenant with the Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces.

            Mr. Humphries married Ethel Elaine Smith and has two children, Richard K. and Elizabeth Ann.

            Homes:  90 Beechwood Drive, Oakland 18, California.

            Offices:  400 Alabama Street, San Francisco 10, California.

 

 

 

Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.

Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 500, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.


© 2014  Cecelia M. Setty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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