Sacramento County
Biographies
NORMAN H.
BATEMAN
NORMAN H. BATEMAN.--An experienced, enterprising operator in the building line is Norman H. Bateman, contractor and builder, at Sacramento. A native of Minnesota, he was born at Lexington, on July 5, 1874, the son of Perry and Cornelia Bateman, sturdy pioneers; his father had really been in California during the stirring days of forty-nine, when he made his “pile,” not by mining, but by teaming for the miners; but he afterward returned to Minnesota and to what looked better to him--farm land. Mr. And Mrs. Bateman are now dead; but their good works live after them.
Norman Bateman profited by the opportunity to attend the excellent rural schools in Minnesota, and then he helped on the home ranch until he was seventeen years of age, when he began a period of seven years of work in a sawmill. Then he became an engineer, and from his twenty-first until his twenty-fourth year, he was an engineer in a flour-mill. Next, he went to Minneapolis and joined a large construction company as a carpenter; and at the end of six years, he undertook contracting for himself.
In 1907, he came out to California to build a clubhouse at McCloud; and after that, he was for three years in San Francisco. Then, until 1914, he was on a ranch and busy with contracting, and following that, he had charge of the construction work, other than building of the main plant, of a sugar plant at Tracy. Now, with F. S. Waterman, he is engaged in contracting and building in Sacramento, and they have built many of the finer residences here. Mr. Bateman belongs to the Master Builders, and as one of the progressive organization, has been ever ready to favor anything itself favorable to Sacramento town or county. In politics he is Republican. In Minneapolis, Mr. Bateman was married to Miss Agnes Fagot, of that city, and they have one child, a daughter named Dorothy. In fraternal affairs, Mr. Bateman is a Master Mason.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 891.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.