Sacramento County
Biographies
HAROLD H. HUSBYE
HAROLD H. HUSBYE.--A very enterprising, well-equipped concern,
always ready for emergency, and always in demand by the most responsible
interests in Sacramento City, and County, is the contract-hauling and
sand-producing firm of Husbye & Reeves, so efficiently represented by the
alert Harold H. Husbye, a native of Norway who has more than made
good in California. He was born on December 20, 1882, the son of
Hans and Bredine Husbye, now deceased, both of whom enjoyed the esteem of their
fellow-men.
Harold
H. Husbye was fortunate in having enjoyed the advantages of the excellent
schools in his native land, and when he came out to the United States in 1902, at the age of
twenty, he was well-prepared to take up the struggle for a livelihood. He spent a few years in the city of
Philadelphia, and in 1908 came out to San Francisco, where he was busily
engaged as a sea-faring man up till 1911, when he began trucking and hauling
material in San Francisco. Meeting with
success, he increased his equipment until he had six trucks. In 1917 he located in Sacramento, where he engaged in
the same business, soon associating himself with J. R. Reeves under the firm
name of Husbye & Reeves, Contract Hauling and Sand Producers. They have ten trucks and now do much of the
hauling for the general contractors, being engaged on city work as well as on
private contracts. The firm owns a sand
plant at the Twelfth Street Bridge across the American River (the plant being
located on the north side of the river), and are thus able to furnish their own
sand. They have a dragline cableway with which they take sand out of the American River. The sand is then screened and washed, after
which it is elevated to the bunkers, from which it is loaded by gravity into
the trucks for distribution. This plant
was built and installed by Husbye & Reeves, and has proved a success, as it
provides them with an abundance of excellent sand, in which they are the
largest local dealers.
In San Francisco, in 1913, Mr. Husbye
was united in marriage with Miss Valborg Larsen, who
was born on the beautiful Lake Mjosen, the largest in-land
body of water in all Norway. There she was reared to womanhood and
received a good education, after which she came to La Crosse, Wis., in 1905. In 1910 she came to San Francisco, and it was there she
met and married Mr. Husbye. Their union
has been blessed with the birth of a daughter, Evelyn. Mr. Husbye belongs to the San Francisco
Aerie, No. 5, of the Eagles.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source:
Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 732.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
©
2007 Donna L. Becker.