Sacramento County
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ANDREW
CRUIKSHANKS
ANDREW CRUIKSHANKS.--An efficient executive whose wide experience has proven of inestimable value both to the corporate interests he represents and also to the many persons, often in sorrow and perplexity, with whom he has to deal, is Andrew Cruikshanks, the affable, accommodating and popular superintendent of the East Lawn Cemetery at Sacramento. He was born in the city of Belfast, province of Ulster, Ireland, on October 30, 1874, the son of Hugh and Helen (Davis) Cruikshanks, of Scotch descent, both of whom, after lives exceptionally useful and honorable, are now deceased.
Our subject attended the excellent schools of Belfast, enjoying the advantages of the national system, and when old enough to do so, he took up bookkeeping. In 1911, however, he found the prospects of life and work in America more attractive than ledgers, and he came out to the United States and California, and located in the city of supreme attractions, Sacramento. For six months he was a special correspondent for the Weinstock-Lubin Company, and then in 1912 he became bookkeeper for the East Lawn Cemetery Association. He was also made assistant secretary, and in that capacity rounded out his three years with the company.
In 1915, Mr. Cruikshanks was appointed superintendent of the cemetery and its nursery, with the most greenhouses in northern California, and he has rendered great service to all interested. In his care of this resting place of the dead, he is ever mindful of the future of Sacramento County as well as the past. He is a Royal Arch Mason, but his sympathies and interests, as befits one in his responsible station, are universal.
In Larne, Ulster, in the year 1900, Mr. Cruikshanks was married to Miss Agnes Whiteside, also a native of Ireland; and their union has been made happier by the birth of three children, Hester, Andrew N., and Vivian Eileen.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 939.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.