Sacramento County
Biographies
CLARENCE M. GRIFFETH
The manufacture of ice cream and butter is
conducted now along scientific lines, and there is no man in the business in
Northern California who is more progressive or more determined to do the very
best in his field of labor that can be done than Clarence M. Griffeth, whose establishment, built up from a small
beginning, is located at No. 2008 N street, Sacramento.
Born in Sacramento July 13, 1884,
Mr. Griffeth was educated in the public school and at
a modern business college, and then for ten years was employed by his father,
M. B. Griffeth, in the latter's grocery at
Seventeenth and M streets. Early in 1910, with his father and mother, he
began his present enterprise in a 10 x12 room at the rear of his father's
store, with no machinery but an ordinary crank freezer which he operated by
hand. In three months he had a commercial freezer and a motor, and in
April, 1911, moved to his present commodious quarters, where he has the most
up-to-date plant of its kind in the city, making and selling on an average four
hundred and fifty gallons of ice cream daily.
In October, 1911, Mr. Griffeth
began the manufacture of creamery butter. In order to excel in this
branch of his enterprise he took a special course in butter-making at the California state dairy farm at Davisville,
which included special instruction in the handling of cream. He is now
contemplating the enlargement of his place of business and the introduction of
very material improvements, in order to meet the steadily increasing demand for
his ice cream and butter. Although he gives the greater part of his time
to the manufacturing business, he is also interested in his father's grocery
business.
September 17, 1905, Mr. Griffeth married Miss Mabel
Lynan of Sacramento. He is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden
West. As a business man he is public-spirited and progressive, having at
heart the best interests of the community.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Page 664.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.