Sacramento County
Biographies
WALTER
OGLESBY FILES
WALTER OGLESBY FILES.--A business man of enterprise and qualifications that place him among the leading citizens of Sacramento is Walter Oglesby Files, who is one of the more recent accessions to the business circles of his community. He was born on August 7, 1888, at Bone Gap, Ill., the son of Chesterfield and Emaline (Wilson) Files. His father, who was a well-known physician and surgeon of Illinois, is deceased. He and his widowed mother came to California in 1908. She passed away at Stockton.
Walter Oglesby Files was educated in the public schools and for two years he was employed in a drug store in Detroit, Mich. When he came to California he was employed by the government at Mare Island, as a progress man, where he worked for four years. In 1919 he went to South America on a pleasure trip and on his return he obtained a position with the Western Loan and Building Company, whose head office is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. This progressive concern has eight branch offices, one of which is operated by Mr. Files, at 411 J Street, in Sacramento.
At San Francisco, in 1922, Walter Oglesby Files married Ida Yarnold, a native daughter of the Golden State. Mr. Files is the father of one son, Edward W., by a former union, and one son, Walter C., by his present wife. Mr. Files is very fond of outdoor sports and fraternally he is a Mason.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 940.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.