Sacramento County
Biographies
ELLSWORTH
E. McMICHAEL
ELLSWORTH.
E. McMICHAEL—Superintendent of the Northern California and Nevada
Division of the American Railway Express, has been identified with the
interests and development of Sacramento since 1913. He was born on a farm in
Morgan County, Ohio, May 28, 1862. His parents were John and Louisa (McNab) McMichael, of Scotch
descent. The family moved to southwestern Iowa in 1865, settling on a farm in Page County.
Ellsworth McMichael
received a common-school education, and later spent some time teaching in the
public schools of the state. In 1887 he removed to Denver, Colo., where he remained until 1892, leaving
there the fall of that year to accept a position in Portland, Ore., with Wells Fargo & Co. In 1906 he
was transferred to Goldfield, Nev., and appointed agent at that place. The
following March he was appointed route agent of the Nevada district, with headquarters at Ogden, Utah; and later he was transferred to Reno, Nev. In 1909 he was assigned to the
California Coast District, with headquarters at San Luis Obispo. In the summer of 1910 he was appointed
agent at Ogden, Utah, serving in that capacity until August
1911, when he was promoted to the superintendent of the Nevada-Utah division,
with head offices at Salt
Lake City, In
September 1912, he removed to Sacramento, where he has since resided.
Mr. McMichael
was married in 1916 to Mrs. Kate A. Ham, a native of California, born in San Francisco, whose maiden name was Kate A Eagles.
She is a daughter of the late Col. Henry A. and Mena
(Kelley) Eagles, the latter descended from the well-known pioneer family of
Kelley, of Roxbury, Mass.; while the former was a Civil War veteran who
enlisted from New York State, and who, coming later to California, became the
master builder of the United States Mint Building at San Francisco, Cal. He
also built the first unit of the state penitentiary at Folsom. He died in San Francisco in 1907, when eighty-five years old.
Mrs. McMichael is prominent in women’s club affairs
in Sacramento, being an active member of the Saturday
and Tuesday Clubs, of which latter club she is corresponding secretary. Mr. McMichael, in politics, is a Republican. He is a member of
the Sutter Club of Sacramento, and has long been a member of the B.P.O. Elks.
Transcribed
by Gloria Wiegner Lane.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page
466. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Gloria Wiegner
Lane.