Sacramento County
Biographies
BENSON F. BACHELOR
BENSON F. BACHELOR.--A popular official who bears his well-earned honors with becoming modesty, is Benson F. Bachelor, the efficient harbor-master of Sacramento. He hails from Cincinnati, where he first saw the light on October 26, 1895, the son of William F. and Susie H. (Ferguson) Bachelor, who came out to San Francisco with their family in 1899, and eventually removed inland to the capital. Here Mr. W. F. Bachelor became the financial manager of the Wood-Curtis Company, of Sacramento. Both parents, the center of an enviable circle of devoted friends, are still living. December 7, 1917, Mr. Bachelor enlisted at Camp Fremont, in the field hospital service. Studying at the base hospital at Palo Alto, he successfully passed the examination for surgical assistant and obtained the rating of surgical assistant. He served in the base hospital at Camp Fremont at the influenza emergency hospital during the "flu" epidemic of 1918. Late in 1918 and early in 1919, he served at the post hospital at Camp Mills, N.Y., and Camp Lee, Va., being stationed at the latter place, and was under orders to sail for service abroad when the armistice was signed, November 11, 1918. He was honorably discharged at the Presidio in San Francisco, February 15, 1919, and lost no time in getting back to the duties of private life.
The grammar and the high schools of San Francisco afforded Benson F. Bachelor an excellent preparation for life, so that when in January, 1916, the Bachelors removed to Sacramento, he was ready to assume considerable responsibility. He had been fortunate, while in San Francisco, to work in the Administration office of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, then for Bradstreet's, and finally in the wholesale grocery trade; and after that, he was employed by the city of Sacramento to take charge of the garbage problems, and still later, to investigate water-charges and complaints.
On May 10, 1922, clearly as reward of merit, for ability and fidelity, Mr. Bachelor was appointed to his present position, which carries with it many new and serious responsibilities. That he will not fail to measure up to whatever may be expected of him is clear, and his many friends rejoice with him in his steady advancement.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 751. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.