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WILLIAM I. CONVERSE
William I. Converse, treasurer and director of Horton and Converse, was born in Monticello, Ohio, on May 8, 1884; the son of Elmer Alpheus and Mary Elizabeth (Gifford) Converse.
He graduated from Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, in 1908; received the degree of Civil Engineer in 1912.
Mr. Converse engaged in engineering construction, and was superintendent for Deering Southwestern Railway, Caruthersville, Missouri, from 1910 to 1914; valuation engineer for railways of International Harvester Company, Chicago, from 1914 to 1920. Since 1920 he has been treasurer and director of Horton and Converse, Los Angeles, California.
President of the Business Men’s Art Institute of Los Angeles; and is a life member of Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay; governor, Wine & Food Society of Southern California, member of Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.
Mr. Converse married Maude Viola Smyth on April 16, 1911, and they have three children: William Irving, James Robert and Dorothy Frances (Mrs. Frank Clark).
Home: 6904 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
Offices: 621 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles 15, California.
Transcribed: 3-27-14 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent Californians
1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor.
Page 284, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California,
1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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