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SILSBY MORSE SPALDING
SPALDING, SILSBY MORSE, Bonds, Los
Angeles, California, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
May 29, 1886, the son of Salathiel Martin Spalding and Sarah Englantine (Camp)
Spalding. He married Caroline L.
Canfield at Los Angeles,
March 14, 1911.
Mr.
Spalding received the early part of his education in the schools of Minneapolis. His family moving to Los
Angeles in 1896, he finished the public school course in Los Angeles, and later graduated from Pomona Preparatory School
at Pomona, California.
He entered Leland
Stanford University
in 1906, but left at the end of his sophomore year to enter business, having
had presented to him an excellent opportunity which he felt he could hardly
afford to let pass.
While yet
in college he had been offered a position with the firm of E. H. Rollins &
Sons of Boston, Massachusetts,
one of the largest municipal and corporation bond houses in the United States. He served his apprenticeship in the San Francisco branch of this firm, and in 1909 he occupied
the position of municipal buyer for the San
Francisco office.
At this
time he was transferred to Los Angeles
and made a part of the company’s selling force.
His work in this capacity was of such successful order that his company,
in June 1910, promoted him to the position of Manager of its Los Angeles
office, in which capacity he is serving at this present time (1912-13).
Mr.
Spalding is a fine example of the successful young business man and in the few
years he has been in Los Angeles
has attained a most substantial standing.
He is a
member of the California Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, and the Midwick
Country Club of Pasadena, California.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on 13 November 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 825,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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