Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK E. LAUPPE
FRANK E. LAUPPE.--A man well-versed as to the many and difficult problems of particular interest to the motorist, and how best to clear away the difficulties, or to open up new and better paths, is Frank E. Lauppe, the automobile dealer of 1321 K Street, Sacramento. The son of J. D. and Jeanette (Shelley) Lauppe, he was born on a farm near Sacramento, in the same district in which his father first saw the light. Mr. Lauppe's grandfather was a forty-niner. His father was one of the earliest to enter the automobile field; he is now retired, enjoying life with his devoted wife, who was born in Nevada County, and has always been the center of a circle of appreciative friends.
Frank Lauppe attended both the grammar and the high schools of Sacramento, and then joined his father in the automobile business, thus entering one of the earliest automobile firms established here. When J. D. Lauppe withdrew from active participation in the business, the son bought out his interest; and he has continued to develop the trade along the lines laid down by the honored pioneer, adding many new features of his own. He handles the Nash cars, and his territory includes ten counties; he employs some fifty people, and has one of the largest plants of the kind in the city, covering three floors, and housing a splendid equipment of the most modern appliances for rapid and thoroughly first-class work. Every department of the automobile industry is represented there, and what the F. E. Lauppe establishment cannot undertake, is not worth the trying. Mr. Lauppe belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Sacramento Automobile Association, and is one of the thousand automobile men in the United States found worthy of being accepted as a member by the National Automobile Dealers' Association; and in each of these organizations he seeks to do what he can in the cause of general progress. Mr. Lauppe also owns considerable real estate in and about the city of Sacramento, and is a director in several of its largest business enterprises. He was one of the principal men concerned in the organization of the Certified Public Motor Car Market in Sacramento, which disposes of all used cars for the public on a non-profit basis, thus filling a long-felt want in the automobile world. He is one of its directors and devotes considerable time towards making a success of the enterprise.
Mr. Lauppe has had many years of experience in the automobile trade, and has been very successful; and he is one of the few automobile dealers financially able personally to carry 100 per cent of his time-payment contracts.
The marriage of Frank E. Lauppe and Miss Neva Shore, a popular belle of Sacramento, took place at Sacramento in 1915, and has proven one of exceptional happiness. Two children have blessed the union, a daughter named Jule Marie, and a son named Norman Shore. Mr. Lauppe is a Master Mason and a member of the Royal Arch Chapter; and he also belongs to the Elks, the Sutter Club, and the Del Paso Country Club. He is fond of hunting and fishing; but he also likes a quiet hour at good reading, and is interested in the history of Sacramento County as the record of a section bound to be the richest and most attractive agricultural area in the Golden State.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 774. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.