Sacramento County
Biographies
ARTHUR WILLIS ELLIOTT
ARTHUR WILLIS ELLIOTT.—An enterprising,
successful business firm of Sacramento, whose operations, varied and extensive,
have helped to keep the fame of Sacramento as a business center before a
wide-spread public, is that of Messrs. Elliott & Huston, of 1010 Eighth
Street, Sacramento, Call, whose senior member if Arthur Willis Elliott, a
native of Alameda County. He was born on June 18, 1881, the son of Andrew
and Annie (Jones) Elliott, energetic Australians, who came from Sydney,
in 1867, and settled as farmer-folk, in the Livermore
Valley. They removed to Sacramento
in 1885, and since that time, in 1912, Mr. Elliott has passed away, meriting
and receiving the esteem of all who knew him.
Arthur
Willis Elliott attended the grammar and then the high schools of Sacramento,
and later pursued successfully the excellent commercial courses at Heald’s and Howe’s Business Colleges in
the capital city. He was then a bookkeeper for a year with
Henderson Brown Produce Company, and later bookkeeper at the California Winery,
for two years. After that, in 1901 he engaged in the real estate and
insurance business for a year with the Carmichael Company, and then he was with
Frank Hickman in the same field for eight years. He next joined W. L.
Reed, in conducting a real estate and insurance business, and next he became
the junior partner in the firm of Reed & Elliott, of 1015 Fourth Street,
continuing in that relation from September 1, 1907, to July 1, 1916, when he
bought out Mr. Reed’s interest, and the business carried on under the old name.
Early
in 1918, Mr. Elliott enlisted for service in behalf of his country in the World
War, and he was in the executive department of the Red Cross society, and was
in Winchester, England,
during the war period. After the signing of the armistice was announced,
he remained abroad, busy liquidating for the United States
government in England, France,
Belgium and Scotland;
and in January, 1920, he returned to Sacramento. Then,
on March 1, 1920, Mr. Elliott took into partnership E. P. Huston, and the firm
since that date has been Elliott & Huston. While in the government
service—when his business was successfully and faithfully conducted by trusted
employees, in his absence—Mr. Elliott was commissioned captain.
On
April 17, 1907, and at Sacramento, Mr. Elliott was married to Miss Rita Ward,
who was born near Roseville, a daughter of Robert and May
Ward, who crossed the great plains by oxen in 1849,
locating on the old Auburn road, four miles south of Roseville. Mrs.
Ward is still living, the center of a circle of
devoted friends; but Mr. Ward is dead, having in his time more than made good
as a sturdy pioneer. Mr. Elliott belongs to the Sacramento Parlor of the
Native Sons of the Golden West, and to the Elks. In politics he is a
Republican.
Transcribed 5-12-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G. Walter,
History of Sacramento County, California
With Biographical Sketches, Pages 767-768.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.