Sacramento County
Biographies
GLENN E. KIRKPATRICK
GLENN E. KIRKPATRICK.--A man of good
business capacity, honest and honorable, is found in Glenn E. Kirkpatrick,
vice-president of the Wood-Curtis Company, wholesale produce dealers in Sacramento. His birth occurred in Plymouth,
Amador County, Cal.,
March 21, 1886, a son of Robert Bruce and Eliza (Sampson) Kirkpatrick. The family removed to Sacramento
when their son, Glenn E. was a small child of two years. In this city the father passed away and here
the mother now makes her home. Glenn E.
Kirkpatrick received his education in the Sacramento
public schools and completed it with a course in Howe’s Business
College. After completing his schooling he entered the
employ of the Wood-Curtin Company and in a short time became a salesman; later
he was manager of a branch house operated by the same company; and in 1913 he
became a partner in the business and was made vice-president of the company.
The
marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick united him with Miss Celia Shaw, a native of Sacramento,
Cal.
Mr. Kirkpatrick belongs to the B. P. O. Elks, the N. S. G. W. and the
Sutter Club, and during the World War he took an active part in all patriotic
drives in his section of the state; he is a Republican in politics.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 978. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.