Butte
County
Biographies
H. H. HUME
H.
H. Hume, who is rendering able and satisfactory service as city manager of
Chico, Butte County, is a capable and experienced civil engineer, in which line
of work he is widely known throughout the Sacramento valley. He was born in Butte County, September 16,
1886, and is a son of Ira and Mary Jane (Humphrey) Hume, the former born at Des
Moines, Iowa, and the latter in Illinois.
The father was a farmer by occupation and in 1875 came of California by
immigrant train, locating in Butte County, where he and his wife spent their
remaining days. They were the parents of
seven sons, namely: Otis, Carl and
Jerome, who are deceased; Guy, who lives in Chico, where he is connected with
the county road department; Forest, deceased; H. H. of this review, and Clark,
deceased.
H.
H. Hume was educated in the grade schools of his home county, the high school
at Chico and in California College, at Oakland.
He then took up the study of civil engineering and has followed that
line of work continuously to the present time earning a well merited reputation
for his skill and dependability. He is a
licensed land surveyor and a licensed civil engineer of the state of
California. He served for nine and a half
years as county engineer of Butte County.
He was with the Southern Pacific Railroad for six and a half years, also
with the Oregon Shortline Railroad, the Sacramento
Northern Railroad and the Utah Copper Company Railroad, and was with the
Lynch-Cannon Engineering Company, of Salt Lake City, in building and factory
construction work in Utah and Idaho.
Mr.
Hume was married and has two children, Ira M. and Jane Louise. He maintains an independent attitude in
political affairs, but invariably supports those candidates who in his judgment
will be serve the public welfare. He is
a member of Chico Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he is past master; Chico
Chapter, R. A. M., and the American Legion.
A veteran of the World War, he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-third
United States Engineers, in October, 1917, and served until June, 1919, when he
was honorably discharged. He saw much
service overseas, spending six months in the front lines, maintaining the
highways and the light military railroads.
He has shown a helpful interest in everything pertaining to the civic
welfare and advancements of Chico and is numbered among its progressive and
public-spirited men.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 417-418. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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