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Angeles County
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CLYDE ERRETT
Clyde Errett is filling the
important and responsible position of assistant comptroller of the Los Angeles
Light & Power Company, with which he has been continuously identified since
May, 1920. He was born in Galva,
Illinois, May 3, 1889, his parents being Wade and Lydia L. (Kelsey) Errett, the
former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter born in Illinois and both
representatives of old American families.
The father, who was a newspaper editor and publisher, is deceased, but
the mother still survives and makes her home in Los Angeles.
Clyde Errett supplemented his public
school education by a course of study at the American University of Harriman,
Tennessee. Thereafter he turned his
attention to newspaper work, having learned the printer’s trade under the
direction of his father, and subsequently took up the study of cost production,
which claimed his time and energies until 1918.
In July of that year, in Los Angeles, he enlisted in the United States
Navy and after six months of active service was placed on the reserve
list. After leaving active service in
1919 at Los Angeles he worked at the printer’s trade there for a period of
fifteen months and then in May, 1920, entered the service of the Department of
Water and Power in the city of Los Angeles, receiving a subordinate
position. His previous training in cost
production proved valuable to him in his new employment and he won rapid
advancement, having been promoted in December, 1928, to his present position of
assistant comptroller. He was selected
to accompany E. F. Scattergood, now chief electrical engineer and general
manager of the Bureau of Power and Light, when the latter went to Washington to
ask for the vast appropriation of funds necessary for the utilization of the
Boulder Dam power; the money was granted and many men were put to work in the
furtherance of this immense project.
Mr. Errett is married and resides at
428 South Holt Avenue in Los Angeles.
His wife was Miss Esther Winifred Chesnut, who
was born in Pennsylvania but reared in Illinois. They have two sons: Fred W., a graduate of the Polytechnic high
school of Los Angeles, who is in the service of the Hauser Packing Company; and
Robert Bruce, who is attending school.
Mr. Errett is a Republican in politics and
fraternally is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His favorite forms of recreation are golf,
bowling and swimming. Cordial and
friendly in manner, all who know him hold him in the highest respect because of
his genuine worth as a man and citizen.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 513-514, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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