Sacramento County
Biographies
LEONARD B. LANDSBOROUGH
LEONARD B. LANDSBOROUGH.–An energetic,
progressive and experienced manager of an important commercial concern of
constantly increasing significance to horticultural interests in Sacramento County, is Leonard B. Landsborough,
popularly called Ted Landsborough, the genial and accommodating secretary of
the A. B. Humphrey Company, fruit-growers, packers, and shippers at Mayhews. A
native son of the Golden State, he was born at Sacramento, on June 11, 1887, the son
of Leonard M. and Agnes (Rutter) Landsborough, whose life-story is given
elsewhere in this work. They are numbered among the pioneer folk now most
honored in our country’s annals, who struggled hard, endured much, and
sacrificed for years in order that the way might be made easier for others, and
that the foundations might be securely laid for the superstructure of
present-day progress and civilization.
Ted Landsborough attended both grammar and high school, and in
1906 was graduated from the latter institution with honors. Then he spent seven
years in Mebius & Drescher Company’s wholesale grocery, where he acquired
much valuable information and experience. On leaving their employ, he entered
upon the duties of his present position, as secretary
and manager of the Mayhews ranch, handling fruit and livestock for his company.
The company own 380 acres at Mayhews, devoted exclusively to fruit, and 1,000
acres at Escalon, in San Joaquin County. They use only the most
scientific and economic methods, and have the most up-to-date plant and
apparatus. They have their own independent selling force in the East, and their
sales total as high as 125 cars. The fruit of the A. B. Humphrey Company is
well-known and in great demand in New York. Mr. Landsborough is also
the manager and secretary of the James Rutter Company, controlling 240 acres of
vineyard land.
In 1911,
Mr. Landsborough married Miss Winnifred Humphrey, the daughter of A. B.
Humphrey; and they have three children, Gladys, Leonard, and Antoinette. Mr.
Landsborough is a Republican, and was foreman of the Sacramento County grand jury for 1919. He
also belonged to the Board of Freeholders that drafted the proposed new county
charter. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and belongs to the Scottish
Rite and the Shrine. He is also a member of the Rotary
Club, and was a member of the board of directors, in 1920, and chairman of the
Fruit and Agriculture Bureau, of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 5/31/07.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 664.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Vicky Walker.