Sacramento County
Biographies
RAY H. MAYHOOD
RAY H. MAYHOOD.--A financier whose
integrity, coupled with his experience and known desire to serve in the great
work of hastening the day when California shall come to its own, is Ray H. Mayhood, the popular proprietor of the Mayhood
Motor Company, Inc., handling the Durant car at 1520
K. Street, now recognized as among the most
progressive of Sacramento County
institutions. He was born on a farm in Solano
County, California, on May 16, 1881, the son
of J. B. and Addie (Copley) Mayhood,
who had married in New York State
and had come out to California in
1870. Mrs. Mayhood
has closed her useful and beautiful life, leaving the heritage of a precious
memory, but her devoted husband still lives, esteemed by all who know him.
Ray
Mayhood attended both the grammar and the high
schools of his locality, after which he took up special study in preparation
for what he had the ambition and the courage to do. He became office manager for Hale Brothers,
of Sacramento, and continued in
that responsible post for seven years; and then he was secretary for two years
of the Sacramento Valley Trust Company.
In 1912 he came o the Fort Sutter National Bank, as exchange teller, and
he worked up to vice-president and manager, continuing until 1923, when he
organized his present company, in which he has been able to do much to advance
the prosperity and the welfare of individuals, and at the same time to get behind public movements making for the betterment of
the community, the state and the nation.
He belongs to the Republican party, but is
non-partisan in matters of local civic uplift.
Mr.
Mayhood was married April 18, 1909, to Miss Iliff Purcel, of Sacramento,
the ceremony taking place at Sacramento;
and their union has been made the happier by the birth of two sons, Jack and
Billy. Mr. And Mrs. Mayhood
belong to the Del Paso Country Club, and they devote
part of their leisure time to golf and fishing.
They enjoy an enviable social popularity, being always ready to respond
to social undertakings in their community.
Mr. Mayhood is a member of Fort Sutter Parlor,
N.S.G.W., and of Concord Lodge No. 117, F. & A. M.; and he belongs to the
Chamber of Commerce.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 556. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.