Sacramento County
Biographies
LEMUEL OSCAR LUMRY
LEMUEL OSCAR LUMRY.--Prominent among the most popular of efficiently conducted dental offices is that of Lemuel Oscar Lumry, proprietor of the Pacific Dental Laboratory at 314 Hagelstein Building, 1109 Ninth Street, Sacramento. Born at Platteville, Colo., on October 27, 1889. Mr. Lumry is the son of Lemuel and Nellie (Pettee) Lumry, the former unknown to him personally as a parent, for he died before our subject was born. Mrs. Lumry and the family later moved to Denver, Colo., where Lemuel Oscar Lumry was reared and went to the grammar and high schools. While only sixteen years of age, he entered a dentist's office, and there learned the mechanical end of the professional work; and when twenty years old he came to California and located in Sacramento. In 1911 he bought his present business, and now he employs thirteen men, and conducts a branch at Reno. Part of his trade is local, and part is mail-order business, and in both he has been very successful.
Mrs. Lumry was Miss Sadie Clyma before her marriage to Mr. Lumry in Sacramento. She is a popular native daughter, born at Pennington, Cal. Mr. Lumry is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shriner, and also belongs to the Lions Club. He is public-spirited, broadly non-partisan in all local political affairs, and is ever ready to put his shoulder to the wheel and "boost" for both the city and the county of Sacramento.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 742. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.