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HUGH FORD STEWART
STEWART, HUGH FORD, Banking Los Angeles, California, was born at Oneonta, New York, the son of James Stewart and Harriet F. (Ford) Stewart. He married Alice Graves September 15, 1904, at Los Angeles, and has two children living, Hugh Ford Stewart, Jr., and Alice Howard Stewart. Griffith Graves Stewart, another son, died January 4, 1908.
He was taught in the common schools of Oneonta, and attended the State Normal College. But the chief education has been that school which has graduated so many successful men, the railroad.
Just after leaving school, in 1899, he went to San Francisco and entered the employ of the Southern Pacific, in the passenger department. He held this position suitably for two year, and was then transferred to Los Angeles. There his office was known as the Traveling Passenger Agent.
After only four years of service, his wide-awake qualities and the success with which he handled his position attracted the attention of the Pacific Electric Railway. In spite of his youth they offered him the place of General Passenger Agent.
He had his ambition set upon a banking career, however, and after two years he arranged with the Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank to become their assistant cashier. Not long after, the Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank and the Southern Trust Company were consolidated and he was chosen the vice president of the combination, later being elected vice president and manager.
He is a member of the American Institute of Banking. He is a man socially inclined, and belongs to the Masons, the California Club, the San Gabriel Valley Country Club, the Valley Country Club, the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Southern California Automobile Club.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 453,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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