FREDRICK JAMES MCGEE

Sacramento County

Biographies

FREDRICK JAMES MCGEE

FREDRICK JAMES McGEE.--Prominent among the most interesting of the younger representative business men of Sacramento County is Fredrick James McGee, widely known through his identification with the firm of McCarthy and McGee of the capital, in which city he was born. He first saw light on July 29, 1895, when he entered the family circle of Daniel J. and Josephine A. (Taylor) McGee. His father is general foreman of the bridge and building department of the Southern Pacific, and it is needless to say that he afforded the ambitious son the best of educational advantages, so that he finished the usual grammar school courses, entered the Sacramento high school, and was graduated therefrom in February, 1915.

Setting out into the world, Fred McGee joined the Earl Fruit Company, commencing at the lower rungs of the ladder; and he climbed until he was assistant sales manager. He mastered the many details of that line of trade, worked hard and prospered, and on January 1, 1922, bought an interest in the Cole-McCarthy company, the firm becoming McCarthy & McGee, insurance specialists, with headquarters at 1008 Eighth Street.

When the World War called for the young Americans of the country, Mr. McGee was among the first to respond from this section, and he entered the United States Regular Army, joined the aviation corps, and in April, 1918, sailed for France. He did valiant service until the armistice was signed, and in November, 1919, was honorably discharged, and was the first soldier from this section to get home.

Mr. McGee belongs to Sacramento Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West; the Knights of Columbus, in which he has reached the third degree, and the B. P. O. Elks; and he was a member, in student days, of the Phi Sigma Chi and the Phi Gamma Pi fraternities. He is fond of hunting in the mountains of northern California.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 7/06/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 923. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.