Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM
EWART HIBBITT
WILLIAM EWART HIBBITT.--An experienced warehouseman whose energy, activity and versatility contribute to his rendering excellent service to a large number of persons, is William Ewart Hibbitt, proprietor of the Lawrence Warehouse Company at Sacramento, with offices at 1108 R Street. He was born in Stockton on October 22, 1889, the son of William Henry Hibbitt, who had married Miss Sarah Churchill, the former a merchant tailor who came from London, England, and settled with his family in Stockton in 1882. Both of these good folks are now deceased, and well do they deserve their rest from wearying labors.
William Ewart Hibbitt enjoyed the advantages of both the grammar and the high schools of Stockton, and then he commenced an apprenticeship as pressman in a local printing office. In May, 1906, he came to Sacramento, and after that he completed his trade. He went to Crockett, in Contra Costa County, and joined the California-Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company, and he was with that concern for six years as warehouseman.
In 1915 Mr. Hibbitt entered the service of the Lawrence Warehouse Company when their business was just established, and there he was the factotum, doing warehouse and office work as well, and he continued with this company, going through the various offices, until in March, 1922, he was able to purchase the business, which employs some fifty people and has six large warehouses. The concern does a general storage business, local and long-distance moving, and acts as distributing agent for large Eastern manufacturers. He is a director in the Chamber of Commerce, and he belongs to the Rotary Club; and being fond of outdoor life, he is deeply interested in this section of California, offering its unrivaled facilities for every kind of healthy recreation.
He married Miss Frances Coughlin, in April, 1914, who first saw the light at Grass Valley, and with her he did his part in Red Cross support and the war drives. They have one daughter, Barbara Jane. He is a Republican, but also a good, non-partisan booster for many things local. He is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a Shriner, and is also a member of the Sutter Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 905.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.