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WILLIAM ARTHUR JOHNSON
William Arthur Johnson, chairman of the Board of the American Pipe and Construction Co., Amercoat Corporation, and Pipe Linings, Inc., was born in Ord, Nebraska, in 1885; son of William Benjamin and Sarah Frances (Freeman) Johnson. He graduated from high school in 1903 at Riverside, California.
Mr. Johnson began his career in construction in 1903 in Riverside and later was president of the contracting firm of Johnson-Shea Company. He was president of the National Bank of Riverside from 1918 to 1922 and upon leaving the bank to re-enter construction work he became president of the Hall-Johnson Company (now Johnson, Inc.) and the Western Concrete Pipe Company (now known as American Pipe and Construction Co.). Mr. Johnson continued as president of the latter Company and its two subsidiary companies, Amercoat Corporation and Pipe Linings, Inc., until August, 1952, at which time he was elected chairman of the Board.
Mr. Johnson is also president of Johnson, Inc., Southern Finance, Pacific Constuctors, Inc. (builders of Shasta Dam); vice president Gifford-Hill-American (Dallas, Texas), Loma Vista Properties, Inc., and Rose Hills Memorial Park Association; director Johnson Western Constructors, Bartolo Co., California Materials Co., Citizens National Bank and Trust Company of Riverside, California; trustee, Pomona College.
He holds membership in the California Club at Los Angeles, San Gabriel and Santa Ana Country Clubs and Newport Harbor Yacht Club.
Mr. Johnson married Irene E. La Rue in 1908 and has two daughters: Mrs. Winston R. (Frances) Fuller of San Marino, California, and Mrs. Earl G. (Margaret) Corkett of Azusa, California.
Home: 806 West Bay Avenue, Balboa, California.
Office: 4635 Firestone Boulevard, South Gate, California.
Transcribed
11-15-14 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 515, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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