Sacramento County
Biographies
CLARENCE
B. CUNNINGHAM
CLARENCE
B. CUNNINGHAM.--A very
popular representative of one of the greatest industrial organizations in California, controlling important commercial and
financial interests in Sacramento County, is Clarence B. Cunningham, the
efficient district manager of the Earl Fruit Company, from 1891 to 1922. He is
a native of the state of Massachusetts, and was born there on March 26, 1871.
His father was Richard Cunningham, of Nova Scotia, and he married Miss Carrie A. Whitman, of the same
picturesque country along the Atlantic.
Clarence B. Cunningham attended the public
schools of the East, and in 1891 came out to California and joined the Earl Fruit Company, and
located at Riverside. In 1896, however, he was transferred to
Mills Station, where he now resides. He married a daughter of Joseph Studarus, an old settler of Mills Station, and so
identified himself with a California family; and he is at present building
his new home on the Fair
Oaks road.
Mr. Cunningham introduced the Chester
White hog into California, and for ten years was president of the
State Swine Breeders’ Association. During the war, he served on Merritt’s
staff, and was one of the three “dollar a year” men of the federal livestock
commission. However, because of his work for the government, his health broke
down. He is very much interested in the development of Sacramento County, and for years experimented
with grapes, which he received from the United States department of agriculture, and he has
come to enjoy the distinction of adding no less than five commercial varieties
to the products of the state, an accomplishment of much practical value.
Mr. Cunningham married Agnes Barbara Studarus, November 14, 1904, at the residence of Joseph S. Studarus, her father. Mr. Cunningham is a member of the
Kiwanis Club, Sutter Club, and Del Paso Country Club, all of Sacramento. He likes baseball, fishing and
out-of-door life generally.
Transcribed
by Gloria Wiegner Lane.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 604. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Gloria Wiegner
Lane.