Sacramento County
Biographies
HENRY C. KEYES
HENRY C.
KEYES. The business interests of Henry
C. Keyes are such as to identify him largely with the financial life of the
city of Sacramento, where he has
been a resident since 1896. He is now
serving as secretary and general manager of the Sacramento Natural Gas Company,
which was organized in 1895 and incorporated the same year. The first well bored was located in the
southwestern part of the city and proved a success, yielding a superior quality
of gas suited for heating, lighting and cooking, without odor, and lacking the
poisonous substances usually found in the artificial gas, or found in other gas
fields in southern or eastern states.
The company have gas mains leading into the
city, which makes the commodity available for cooking, heating and
lighting. At present the company is
engaged in prospecting in other localities in Sacramento
county and is meeting with fair success. Mr. Keyes has given a good deal of time to
the study of conditions existing in many of the gas fields throughout this
section and has taken a lively interest in the organization and maintenance of
other companies besides the one above mentioned. He was a factor in the organization of the
Citizens Natural Gas Companies of California,
and since 1889 has served as secretary of the same. In the summer of 1905 he organized the Lodi
Natural Gas Company, at Lodi, Sacramento
county, of which he is one of the principal
stockholders.
Mr. Keyes
is also largely interested in real estate in Sacramento
county, in the summer of 1905 having erected his
handsome residence at a cost of $10,000 on M street, one of the best improved
streets in the city. His residence is a
credit to the architectural beauty of the locality and is complete in all of
its appointments. Prior to taking up his
residence in Sacramento Mr. Keyes was engaged in the life and fire insurance
business in Stockton from 1879 until 1896, a business in which he met with
splendid success. He is recognized as
one of the public-spirited citizens of Sacramento,
broad minded and intelligent, and liberal in his support of all movements for
the benefit of the city.
Transcribed
by Kathy Porter.
Source: “History of
the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley,
California” by
J. M. Guinn. Page 632.
Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1906.
© 2007 Kathy Porter.