Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK L. McNALLY
FRANK L. McNALLY.--A wide-awake, progressive executive, invaluable both to his employers and also to their patrons, is Frank L. McNally, the division commercial superintendent of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company at Sacramento. He was born at San Francisco, in 1876, and started life with the advantage of the bay city environment and as the son of T. Y. and Josephine (Clayton) McNally, highly esteemed pioneers of their generation. The father died when Frank was very young; but the lad enjoyed the benefits of the public schools in San Francisco, after which he commenced early in the telegraph messenger service. He was willing to commence at the lowest round, and the result was that he was afforded the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of all departments of the telegraph and telephone business.
In June, 1920, Mr. McNally came to Sacramento and began to fill the position he now dignifies through his efficient and faithful service, he being the first to occupy this office, for the commercial division here was first created in 1920. From the beginning, he has worked tirelessly to improve the relations between the public and the company, by providing still better service, if that could be effected, and by making the public better acquainted with both the problems and the motives of the company; and those familiar with his record since he came to the capital, will attest that his efforts have not been in vain. He is today one of the most popular officials representing a great corporation rendering the public a vast service, in all the valley. Some of this success is undoubtedly due to his equally agreeable experience as district superintendent of the western half of the state of Washington in 1911, and the following years, before he came here.
Mr. McNally was married to Miss Ella E. Kenny, of San Francisco, in 1910, the ceremony taking place in that city, and the union has proved a very happy one. They have one child, Jean Ellen. Mr. McNally belongs to the Masons, in which he has attained to the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he belongs to Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Sutter and Del Paso Country Clubs and the Rotary Club. Independent in his political acts, he is a man above party restraints, and so always endeavors to support only the best man and the best measures for the welfare of the community.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 903.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.