Sacramento County
Biographies
HARVEY O.
ADAMS
HARVEY O. ADAMS.--That Sacramento is something more than the headquarters of law-makers, and their numerous proteges, is evidenced by such an interesting enterprise as that of Harvey O. Adams, the contractor in tiles and marbles, of 915 Twenty-sixth Street, Sacramento. A native of the Buckeye State, Harvey was born in Toledo, on August 28, 1886, the son of Frank and Ellen (Payne) Adams, the former likewise an experienced dealer in the same commodities, who closed his career of practical service in Oregon. Mrs. Adams, who made many friends in her journey through life, is also deceased.
Harvey Adams attended the primary schools of Ohio, and then learned the tile and marble trade, and for some time worked at it in that state. At the age of nineteen, he came out to California and located for eight months in Los Angeles; and from there he went to Portland, also spending some time in San Francisco. He was in Portland for fourteen years, and in 1919, unable longer to resist the lure of the sunnier South, he came back to California, and established himself in business at Sacramento. He employs twelve men to do such contract work as that found in the Auto-Stage Depot and the Elliott Garage, and in many dwelling-houses and flats. He is a member of the Builders’ Exchange, and belongs to the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and the Progressive Business Men’s Club. Being one of a very few men in his line in this locality, Mr. Adams is not only in great demand, but he is often privileged to do something, by way of accommodation, or in the nature of a boost to the growing town, which no one else is able at the time and the place to do.
In the year 1916, Mr. Adams married Miss Ellen Erickson, of Minnesota, who shares with him the social life of the Masons, the Eastern Star, and other circles. He is a Democrat, but an enthusiastic non-partisan in strictly local issues.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
984-985. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.