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LEWIS MARTINDALE FARNHAM
FARNHAM, LEWIS MARTINDALE, Secretary Pacific Light &
Power Corpn., Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Bangor, Me.,
May 26, 1864, the son of John N. Farnham and Nancy Melinda (Wentworth)
Farnham. He married Faustina Ankeny Gerrish
at Milford, Me., Nov. 24, 1892.
Mr.
Farnham, who is of Puritan stock, received his education in the public schools
of Bangor,
foregoing High School to accept employment in a book store, where he worked
eleven years, then entered the employ of the Maine Central Railroad. During the next nine years he served as
Accountant, Rate Clerk and Paymaster, and was Cashier of the Local Freight
Office when he resigned, in 1898, to go West on account of ill health.
Locating at
Oak Hill, California,
Mr. Farnham went to work as storekeeper and bookkeeper for the Napa Quicksilver
Mining Co., and later was Superintendent of the Aetna Quicksilver Mining Co.
In 1903 he
went to Los Angeles
as Assistant Auditor of the Pacific Light & Power Co., with which he has
continue down to the present. From 1903
to 1907 he also was Assistant Secretary of the San Joaquin Light & Power
Co., from 1907 to date he has served as Secretary of the San Joaquin Co., and
for five years served as Assistant Secretary of the Pacific Light & Power
Co., being promoted to Secretary in July, 1912, resigning the position of
Auditor, occupied since 1907. During
1908-10 he was Secretary of the Domestic Gas Co., and since its reorganization
as the Southern California Gas Co. has held the same office. He also is Secretary of the Coalinga Water
& Electric Co., Union Power Co., Lerdo Land Co., and Electric Power Co.,
all important public service corporations of So. Cal.
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Union League Club of
Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Michele Y. Larsen 26 October 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 816,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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