Sacramento County
Biographies
REGINALD
GEORGE CLIFFORD
REGINALD GEORGE CLIFFORD.--A well-trained engineer, whose experience has developed in him to a high degree an invaluable executive ability, is Reginald George Clifford, the chief engineer of the Natomas Company of Sacramento. He is native of England, but is also an enthusiastic American, willing to assume all of his share of obligation, as well as to enjoy the advantages incidental to American citizenship. He first saw the light at London on March 25, 1882, the son of George F. And Josephine (Gilmore) Clifford, and came with his family to the United States in 1886. His parents were of the sturdy, progressive sort, and when his father passed away, he was lamented by all who knew him. The devoted mother now resides at San Francisco.
Reginald George Clifford went to both the grammar and the high schools, and then entered the University of California for further preparation, graduating in 1905, when he received the B. S. Degree. He spent six years with the Western Pacific Railroad, starting in on first location parties, and remained with them until the Feather River course was completed. Then he was a year with the Great Western Power Company, making investigations for power plants, near Lake Almanor. After that, he was for three years with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, where he designed, and as engineer supervised the Spaulding Dam; and in 1914 he joined the Natomas Company, and he has been its engineer ever since. He belongs to the Sutter Club and also the Exchange Club.
Mr. Clifford has made a specialty of irrigation problems, and is therefore deeply interested in the development of Sacramento County. He organized and served as president of the Valley Construction Company, and has been very active as a consulting engineer for large irrigation promoters in the Sutter Basin, and also in District 2047, and the Colusa Basin. He is now the engineer for the Association of Reclamation Districts, and has been instrumental, with those in the same undertaking, in keeping down the rates for the farmer as low as possible.
At San Rafael, in 1907, Mr. Clifford was married to Miss Edna E. Sides, a native daughter of San Francisco; and they have three children, Elizabeth, George and Frederick. Mr. Clifford is a Mason.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 889.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.