Sacramento County
Biographies
ARCHIE W. CLIFTON
A. W. CLIFTON.--The progressive, rapidly growing and attractive Oak Park section of Sacramento is well represented in its commercial life by the Oak Park Furniture Company, whose proprietor, A. W. Clifton, being a native son from Amador County, is naturally in touch and sympathy with Californian enterprise. He was born at Ione, on September 4, 1877, the son of Joseph Thomas and Alice Nevada (Simmons) Clifton, and his father came from Springfield, Ohio, and was a great friend of Mr. Smith, who was a survivor of the Shepherd party so terribly massacred by Indians in Utah, during the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Mr. Clifton was a farmer, and a substantial, extensive one at that, and was for twenty years superintendent of the Ione Coal & Grant Company; and he served as supervisor, in Township No. 2. When, therefore, he passed away in 1812, he was mourned as one who had been well-esteemed. Mrs. Clifton is living on the home-ranch with her son, Arthur, who is now supervisor of his township.
A. W. Clifton went to the public schools of Amador County, and then continued such courses as gave him a commercial training, and after that he worked for his father, until he was twenty-one. In 1902, he came to Sacramento and joined the John Brower Company, with whom he remained four years; and then he was with the Home Furniture Company, for two years, and he after that had charge of their branch for six months. Then he bought out the branch business in 1910, which at that time was in a small shack. When the present modern building was erected some eight years ago, about 6,500 square feet of floor-space were available, and were soon well-stocked with up-to-date furniture, for the Oak Park Furniture Company makes it a boast that it carries everything necessary and desirable to properly furnish the house. Not only does Mr. Clifton wisely give his personal attention to every detail of the business, and gladly respond to any request on the part of a patron who may wish this or that not immediately obtainable and requiring some effort to procure, but he prides himself on anticipating, as it were, the wants of a community he now rather intimately knows.
Mr. Clifton married June 1, 1907, Miss Jennie S. Solomonson, of Amador County, at Ione, Amador County, by whom he has had two sons, Henry and Morris. He has recently had constructed as a dwelling for their own use a handsome brick residence on Stockton Boulevard at No. 4300. Independent in politics, Mr. Clifton is able to exert a good influence for the upbuilding of the community.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 763-764. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.