Sacramento County
Biographies
THOMAS McCONNELL
THOMAS McCONNELL.--A well-known leader in the Sacramento motor-world is Thomas McConnell, the proprietor of McConnell’s Auto Repair Shop at 1114 Twenty-first Street. He is not only a native son, but also a native of Stockton, where he was born in 1875, and he naturally has a very warm place in his heart for both the Golden State and its central valley. His parents were Charles and Mary (Elliott) McConnell. Under a stimulating, fostering home environment, Thomas attended the grammar and the high school of Oakland, and then for twenty years followed in the footsteps of his father, who was an experienced cattleman, operating on an extensive scale. He had the usual ups and downs of those in the cattle industry, and when he came to Sacramento, in 1919, he was rich in experience. In June of this year, Mr. McConnell bought the Superior Garage, taking in at first a partner, and they acquired a large concrete fireproof building; and after a while he bought out his partner’s interest, which he sold in 1921, and a little later opened his present place of business. He maintains both a repair shop and a service department, with the result that a customer once obtained is sure to come again.
In the year 1917, at San Francisco, Mr. McConnell was married to Miss Edith Rowan, a native of Ohio. In national political affairs, Mr. McConnell is a Republican, but he also looks at the world through broad spectacles, and especially in local movements, and is among the first to throw aside partisanship and to put his shoulder next to his neighbor’s at the community wheel.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 981.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.