Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM E.
BRISTOL
WILLIAM E. BRISTOL.--Among the young business men of promise who are helping to build up a permanent prosperity for Sacramento, none are held in higher esteem, nor have any brighter prospects, than William E. Bristol, secretary-manager of the Carly-Bristol Company, at 823 J Street, real estate and insurance brokers. His birth occurred in West Webster, N. Y., March 12, 1891, a son of Irving B. And Etta (Robinson) Bristol. The family came to California in 1907 and located in Santa Cruz, where Irving B. Bristol is pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and where the parents of our subject reside.
William E. Bristol received a grammar and high school education and his first venture in the business world was as an electrical plater in Fresno, in 1907, where he received three dollars per week for his services; on his twenty-first birthday he received $500 from his father, which he invested in a grocery business in San Francisco, under the name of the United Pure Food Company, of which he was vice-president. From a small beginning this business expanded until they owned and operated eleven stores throughout the city; then reverses came and everything was lost. Mr. Bristol then went into the insurance business, which he followed from 1912 to 1917, in San Francisco, when he became identified with the J. C. Carly Company of Sacramento, as assistant in the insurance department; after six months’ service he was made manager of the insurance department, a position he occupied for two years, when he became a director in the company and office manager; in 1921 he purchased stock in the company and was elected to the position of secretary. Since August 1, 1922, Mr. Bristol has been operating under the name of Carly-Bristol Company, specializing in insurance, real estate loans, and rentals and leasing.
The marriage of Mr. Bristol united him with Miss Mary Edith Hanner, a native of Iowa, and they have one son, William Irving, and a daughter, Barbara Eleanor. Mr. Bristol is a Republican in politics and fraternally is a thirty-second-degree Mason and also a member of the Shrine and the Sciots of Sacramento; and he is chairman of the program and attendance committee of the Exchange Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 908.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.