Sacramento County
Biographies
LOUIS F. HANDLIN
LOUIS F. HANDLIN.--A wide-awake
representative of a very progressive and well-known business house of Sacramento
is Louis F. Handlin, the junior member of the firm of Messrs. Barton &
Handlin, of 619 J. Street. A native son, and one exceptionally loyal to
the state in which he first saw light, he was born at Sacramento on November
10, 1878, the son of Joseph J. and Sarah J. (Harris) Handlin, the former a
veteran of the Civil War, in which he fought with Maryland troops. When the great struggle was over, he came
west from devastated fields and ruined fortunes to the newer and more inviting California,
where he entered the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. He also found a place in the navy yard, and
proved most valuable there as one of their expert brass-foundry men.
Louis
attended the public schools of Sacramento, and then he
secured employment with the Sacramento
“Bee,” rose to become superintendent of circulation, and was in the service of the famous newspaper for
twenty years. He next ventured into the
real estate field, but at the end of two years he joined Louis G. Barton, and
the two formed the firm of Barton & Handlin, and bought out the California
Wall Paper Company. Since that time they
have been established at the above address, where they have maintained the
leading store in the capital city for the supply of wall paper, paper and
related articles, building up and holding a superior trade through their policy
of leaving nothing undone to accommodate and help a customer.
In
the year 1908 Mr. Handlin was married to Miss Ida L. Suter,
the daughter of Chris Suter, an old pioneer from Switzerland
who came out to California before
Ida was born, and eventually became connected with the Suter
Planing Mill.
Mr. Handlin belongs to Sacramento Lodge No. 6 of the Elks, and is keenly
interested in both the city and county
of Sacramento, proving his local
devotion by an investment in valuable properties.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 924. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.