Sacramento County
Biographies
CARL A.
LAMUS
CARL A. LAMUS.--A very successful man of affairs is Carl A. Lamus, of the well-known firm of Carl Lamus Company, and the Exide Battery Service proprietor. He was born at Minneapolis, Minn., on June 23, 1882, the son of Peter and Emma Lamus, both of whom are now deceased. The mother died when our subject was only four years of age. His father afforded him such elementary educational advantages as were possible through the public school; but at the age of fifteen Carl set out for himself, and from that date began to earn his own living. He had had a good start in life, and the influence of a good home accompanied him in his early career.
In 1902, he came out to California and at Keswick learned the trade of machinist, and in 1904 he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific in Sacramento, where he gained the world’s record for boring locomotive cylinders, completing the job in two and three-fourths hours average, day after day. The best record today in the Sacramento shops is eight hours. In 1906, he entered the employ of the P. G. & E., and learned the trade of electrician, and later had charge of installing the Brighton station for the Great Western Power Company. Next he went to Big Bend, where he was in charge of operations until he engaged in his present business in 1911, when he established himself with Chas. H. Graham, in the business with which his name has long been honorably associated. In February, 1922, Mr. Lamus succeeded to the ownership of the business and now employs fifteen persons.
Mr. Lamus was married to Miss Elizabeth Kauffmann, a native of San Francisco, and she has proven an excellent helpmate. Mr. Lamus is a director in the Chamber of Commerce at Sacramento, and he belongs to the Rotary Club of the same city. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner, an Elk and an Odd Fellow, and is fond of fishing, bowling, golf, and baseball, and is a member of the Del Paso Golf and Country Club. In national politics he is above mere party lines and narrowness; in local affairs, he is, first, last and all the time a good “booster,” devoted to the section in which he lives and thrives.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 891-892. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.