Sacramento County
Biographies
HERBERT G.
MELVIN
HERBERT MELVIN, now the proprietor of the business still conducted under the firm name of William Melvin & Son, is a native of Rochester, New York, born August 26, 1852. He was reared in Sacramento, and received his education in the public schools of this city. He learned his trade in his father’s shops, and in 1884 became a partner in the business. Since his father’s death the business has fallen into his hands entirely, and his management of it shows his excellent business qualifications. He employs, on an average, eight skilled workmen, and does all kinds of wagon and truck manufacturing, general blacksmithing, horse shoeing etc., but makes a specialty of the manufacture of heavy trucks, in which this shop stands unequaled. The demand for these trucks extends to a considerable distance from this city. Mr. Melvin was married in this city, in September, 1878, to Miss Nettie J. Russell, a native of Sacramento County. He is a member of Columbia Lodge, K. of P., and of Eureka Lodge, I. O. O. F. He was for seven years a member of the City Guard of Sacramento, and rose from the ranks to the rank of First Sergeant. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Melvin is one of the most active and enterprising young men of business in Sacramento, and well deserves the success with which he is meeting.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 725. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.