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WILLIAM LUCAS VALENTINE
VALENTINE, WILLIAM LUCAS, Oil,
Los Angeles, California, was born March 8, 1870, in Mendocino County,
California, the son of William Valentine and Susan (Lucas) Valentine. He
married Louie Chandler Robinson, May 27, 1896, at Los Angeles and has four
children.
Mr. Valentine is a graduate of the Lincoln Grammar School
of San Francisco, 1885. He attended the Commercial High School of San Francisco
for an additional year.
He went to work for Carrick, Williams & Wright
Company of San Francisco in the lumber and box business. He resigned to take a
place with the Easton Eldridge Company, one of the largest real estate firms of
San Francisco. He worked in the various departments of the firm until 1893,
when he was put in charge of a branch office at Los Angeles, under the
direction of Major George Easton. He resigned in 1900 to organize the Fullerton
Oil Company, a corporation capitalized for $600,000. The new company began with
the ownership of fifty acres of proven oil land. With a single assessment, oil
in quantity was found. From the profits an additional 380 acres were
bought. The reports of the concern in 1911 state that
$651,000 in dividends had been paid and that there was no debt.
Mr. Valentine is the largest stockholder and is secretary and general
manager of its affairs.
He was chosen a director in the Merchants’ National Bank
of Los Angeles in 1910, and is now well started in big business.
He is a director of the California Club, director of the
Automobile Club of Southern California, member of the Cerritos Gun Club, Bolsa Chica Gun Club, South Bay
Shooting Club and San Gabriel Valley Country Club. He is a junior member of the
Society of California Pioneers.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
16 March 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 626,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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