Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE J.
CALDER
GEORGE J. CALDER.--A liberal-minded, large-hearted citizen of Sacramento who has been instrumental in helping to build up his community, is George J. Calder, who was born at Sonora, Cal., on August 5, 1884, the son of George B and Louise (Klein) Calder. In 1856, his father, an expert mining man and miller of ores, came to California via Panama and located at Sonora. Mrs. Calder passed away at Oakland in 1911, while her husband died in 1917 in Sacramento.
Geo. J. Calder attended and graduated from the Stockton high school and received his B. S. Degree at the University of California in 1909 in civil engineering. For five years after graduation, he was in the employ of the Ransome Concrete Company at San Francisco and Sacramento as structural and designing engineer, coming to Sacramento in 1910. During this period, he prepared the structural design for the Farmers & Mechanics Bank Building, California Fruit Building, Merrium Apartments and other structures and buildings in Sacramento. In 1914 he was one of the organizers and became the secretary of the George D. Hudnutt, Inc. Construction Company. During the same year, he was also retained by the city of Sacramento as construction engineer on the Sacramento By-Pass, the William Land School, Washington School, Hall of Justice, City Library Building and the extension of the sewer systems for the city of Sacramento. After this work, he constructed the Natomas Boulevard on the Sacramento River, after which he was again employed by the city of Sacramento as structural engineer and finally as the resident engineer at the Sacramento Filtration Plant.
On June 18, 1910, he married Mabel A Adams of San Francisco, the daughter of Fred and Anna Reid Adams. He is deeply interested in trout fishing and hunting, and, in fact, all outdoor sports. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Ben Ali Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Sutter Club, the Architects and Engineers’ Club, and also the Tau Beta Phi and Phi Kappa Psi college fraternities.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 935-936.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.