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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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