Sacramento County
Biographies
DAVID
MACAULAY
DAVID MACAULAY.--For the past four years David Macaulay has been identified with business interests of Sacramento as one of the organizers of the Russell & Macaulay hay and grain business and well know in business circles as an able, resourceful and successful business man. He was born in County Durham, England, February 24, 1884, a son of William and Jane (Davidson) Macaulay, both natives of England. William Macaulay, the father of our subject, is still living at the age of eighty-five, but the mother has passed away.
David Macaulay grew to manhood in the parental home in England and received his education in the schools of County Durham. His first position was with a cement manufacturing concern; then for a few years he was with a ship-building and repairing concern; then with the Copper Smelters & Refineries, being thus employed until 1906 when he came to the United States and direct to San Francisco. In the bay city he became identified with Scott, Magner & Miller, the largest hay and grain house on the Pacific Coast. During the thirteen years of his connection with this large establishment, he became thoroughly conversant with the hay and grain business, so that in 1919, in partnership with Gordon K. Russell, he removed to Sacramento and established a hay and grain business under the firm name of Russell & Macaulay. He has met with unqualified success in his undertaking.
The marriage of Mr. Macaulay united him with Miss Hanna L. Daly and they have one son, David, Jr. Mr. Macaulay is a member of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and the National Hay Association as well as the Del Paso Country Club and the Sutter Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 910-911.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.