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BERT E. HART

In the field of telephone communication Bert E. Hart is recognized as an authority and an expert, and as general manager of the Delta Telephone and Telegraph Company he has performed a service which is appreciated throughout the territory served by this institution. A native of Neillsville, Clark county, Wisconsin, he was born on the 21^st of January, 1880, a son of Hiram L. and Sarah J. (Palmer) Hart. In both paternal and maternal lines he is descended from sterling old American stock running back to the Revolutionary period. The father is deceased.

Bert E. Hart attended the public schools of his home town and completed his education in the University of Wisconsin. In 1904 he went to Seattle, Washington, where he was with the local telephone company for two years. He had had previous experience with telephone companies in his home state and on leaving Seattle he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he was in the same line of work for one year, followed by a short period in San Francisco. He was next at Reno, Nevada, and then at Sacramento, in both of which places he was with the telephone companies. In the fall of 1918 Mr. Hart came to Courtland and has since been actively identified with the Delta Telephone and Telegraph Company as general manager.

Mr. Hart was united in marriage to Miss E. M. McLeod, of Reno, Nevada, who was born in Canada. Mr. Hart gives his political support to the republican party, and fraternally is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. During the Spanish-American war he enlisted in the United States Army and served in Puerto Rico. During the World war he served as a member of the exemption board of Plumas county. He is a man of sterling qualities, great energy and persistence, doing well whatever he undertakes, and has rendered a service since coming to Courtland that has won for him the respect of all who know him.

Transcribed by Debbie Gramlick.

Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 Pgs. 308-309. The PioneerHistorical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.

Sacramento County Biographies