LOUIS HELDOORN

Sacramento County

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LOUIS HELDOORN

LOUIS HELDOORN.--An enterprising, progressive native of Holland, who has done so well since coming to California that he has proven an incentive to many others and pointed the way to those ambitious of doing something useful with their lives, is Louis Heldoorn, who was born in October 31, 1886, and there trained in the excellent schools for which that land is famous. His parents were William and Holida Heldoorn, who provided their family with the usual comforts of the old-time Dutch home. The father is now deceased; but the mother still lives, the center of a circle of many devoted friends.

At the age of twenty-three Louis Heldoorn crossed the seas to the United States; and in 1916, he pushed on west to California and cast his lines in pleasant waters at Sacramento. The Golden State presented life in other outlines and different hues than one would find in the land of Orange; but if the gigantic and ancient windmills were wanting, the rivers and canals were here, and it was not long before he was at home. He was for a while engaged in transportation; and then he formed a partnership with Mr. Hudspeth, and opened the Enterprise Employment Agency, at one of the popular bureaus in the city. He sold out his interest in the Enterprise Employment Agency November 10, 1922. He is at present located at 901 Second Street, and is about to engage in the building game in North Sacramento. Mr. Heldoorn is deeply interested in Sacramento, town and country, and ready to do all that he can to hasten the day when California shall truly come to its own.

Transcribed by Priscilla Delventhal.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 1001. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.