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JOHN
VERNON MANNERS
John
Vernon Manners, president of Paperbox Corporation and
Acme Paper Box Company, was born July 15, 1897, in East Orange, New Jersey; the
son of William Sutton and Lizzie B. (Robinson) Manners. Graduated from
Montclair Academy in 1917.
During World War I, 1917 to 1919,
Mr. Manners served as naval aviator; then commercial aviator from 1920 to 1922.
He has been president of the Paperbox Corporation and
Acme Paper Box Company since 1938, Oakland, California.
Member of Contra Costa Development
Association, Contra Costa
Horsemen’s Association, Metropolitan Horsemen’s Association,
Concord-Diablo Trail Ride Association, American Poultry Association, Sonoma
Trail Blazers, Frontier Boys, and the following clubs: Athenian-Nile, Orinda
Country, Commonwealth, American Pigeon, and American Horse Show Association.
Mr. Manners married Elizabeth Fechteler on April 20, 1921, and they have three children:
Elizabeth, Patricia and John Vernon, Jr.
Home: Happy Valley Road, Lafayette, California.
Offices: 800 Tennessee Street, San Francisco,
California; and 953 Sixty-third Street, Oakland, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 544, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
Contra Costa County Biographies