Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM ALBERT HOSKING
WILLIAM ALBERT HOSKING.--Among the well-known and popular business men of Sacramento is William Albert Hosking, the owner and general manager of the Peerless Ice Company, among the foremost establishments in this line in the capital city. He is one of California's native sons, born at Whiterock, Eldorado County, May 13, 1882, a son of John Griffith and Anna J. (Hopkins) Hosking. John Griffith Hosking came West and settled in the state of Nevada in an early day. Anna J. Hopkins was born in Iowa, and was married to John Griffith Hosking at Virginia City, Nev. In 1891 John G. Hosking located in Sacramento, and there engaged in the wholesale and retail fish business at the corner of Ninth and P Streets. The father is deceased, but the mother is still living in Sacramento.
William Albert Hosking began his education in the public schools of Sacramento, and finished with a business course at Heald's Business College in San Francisco. After finishing school, he entered his father's store, Ninth and P Streets, in the city of Sacramento, where he remained until he decided to try railroading, and entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. After six years with this company he took a trip to Alaska and was engaged in mining for seven years. Thrifty and industrious, he had now acquired the means to embark in business for himself, which he believed would yield him greater financial returns, and in 1909 he established the Peerless Ice Cream Company at 921 K Street. In 1919 he started to build his new ice cream plant, located at 1115 G Street, which was finished the following year. He now has twenty-five delivery trucks and employs thirty-seven people to care for the steadily increasing business. His product goes south to Lodi and Calaveras County, west to Calistoga, and north as far as Weed.
The marriage of Mr. Hosking united him with Miss Teckla Marie Erickson, a native daughter of Ophir, Cal., and they are the parents of one son, John Griffith. Being of a social and genial nature, Mr. Hosking is popular with people in all walks of life; and he is highly respected and esteemed for his high qualities of character which are manifest in his social and business relations. He is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Native Sons of the Golden West; and he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and the Del Paso Country Club, being one of the organizers and a life member of the latter organization. During the World War, Mr. Hosking was active in all the drives of his community.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 768. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.