Sacramento County
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LUPPE BARNES LUPPEN
LUPPE BARNES LUPPEN.--A highly-trained,
widely-experienced and aggressively progressive business man is Luppe Barnes Luppen, senior
member and president of the firm of Luppen &
Hawley, at 906 Seventh Street, Sacramento. He was born at Pekin,
Ill., on July 5, 1883, the son of Conrad and Alice
Rosella (Barnes) Luppen, worthy parents still living
in Sacramento. They were decidedly in favor of the best
educational advantages, and so sent their son, Luppe,
to both the grammar and the high schools at Pekin,
after which he passed three years in Europe, taking
special work there in noted schools.
When he returned to America, he
matriculated at the University of Minnesota;
and after a year, he shifted to Cornell
University, where he finished the
junior year. While there, he was a
member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
His
strong bent for practical work led Mr. Luppen to come
West to Chicago
and join the staff of the Western Electric Company, engaged in outside
construction work; and he had charge of various under-takings for them. Coming on the to Pacific Coast, Mr. Luppen engaged with Messrs. C. C. Moore & Company, of
San Francisco, for the erection of two cyanide plants at Millers, in Esmerelda County, Nev., a responsible assignment engaging
him for a year and a half; and he established a reputation for ability in the
operation of power plants and general outside work. He next entered the employ of the Pacific
Improvement Company, and then he was with the consulting engineer of the Palace
Hotel work, at San Francisco, and
after that with the state department of engineering, doing mechanical drafting
for state buildings.
Returning
to San Francisco, Mr. Luppen was
with Mr. Tharp, city architect of the city of San Francisco,
and was appointed mechanical engineer in the Bureau of Architecture, at San
Francisco, doing city work. And during that period
they erected in particular the Hall of Justice in the bay city. Resigning, he was appointed by Mr. N. Ellery,
state mechanical engineer, and worked on state institutions; and when he
resigned from that post, he joined Frank C. Kelsey, the consulting engineer of Portland,
Ore., and worked on the Kittitass
Reclamation service at Ellensburg, Wash. In 1912, he was again appointed mechanical
engineer of the state of California,
under Hiram Johnson; and in 1918 he was appointed chief engineer of the state,
and had charge of all state building, involving new construction to the amount
of one and one-half millions, and extensions to the amount of three and
one-half millions.
Resigning
again, Mr. Luppen set about establishing a business
for himself; and in the first year he had all the heating and ventilating
contracts for the Fresno high school group, and also for
the Hanford high school, and he did
much school work all over the state. He
still does consulting work for the state; and he has been instrumental in
laying out the water-supply system of the Del Paso Club, and in accomplishing
much else for the improvement of various localities, adding greatly to the
comfort, health, convenience and welfare of thousands of people. As manufacturers’ representative, Messrs. Luppen & Hawley carry a complete
equipment for irrigation and water supply, including the Krogh
single and double suction centrifugal pumps, belted and direct connected pumps,
Krogh deep well turbines. Krogh multi-stage
turbines, Deming triplex and heavy-duty pumps, Deming rotary pumps, Sampson
Hyatt bearing windmills, Vaile-Kimes pressure water
supply systems, Stover gasoline and kerosene engines, motors, pump-jacks,
cylinders, hand pumps, casing and pipe; and they also carry a complete
mechanical equipment for buildings, including steam-heating systems, hot-water
systems, boiler plant installations, high-pressure and low-pressure steam work,
power plant equipment, pipe covering, refrigeration, vacuum cleaning, plumbing,
crude oil and distillate burners, air conditioning apparatus, temperature
control apparatus, sheet-packing, rod-packing , gaskets, etc.
At
Sacramento, in 1910, Mr. Luppen was married to Miss Emma Florette
Hodgdon, and their happy union has been signally
blessed in the birth of four children, Jeanne, Luppe,
Peter and Florette.
Mr. Luppen is a Republican. He belongs to the Sacramento Chamber of
Commerce and the Rotary Club, as well as the Del Paso Club, and is a Royal Arch
Mason.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 787-788.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.