Biographies
AMOS WILLIAM NORRIS
AMOS WILLIAM NORRIS.—An expert in twentieth-century building is Amos William Norris, who was born at Sacramento on July 29, 1885, the son of Wilbur William and Mary (Gross) Norris—the former a boy of two years when he came out to California by way of the Horn, the latter a native of Lincoln, in Placer County, California. Mr. Norris, who was also a contractor in building, and his good wife are still living, esteemed by the many who have known them as worthy representatives of old pioneer families.
Amos William Norris attended the public schools, and then he went to the best business college available; with such excellent results, in his studies, that he was able to take charge of his father’s business, in 1910, and make it his own. Since then he has built some of the finest residences in the city, including the Curtis warehouse, the fittest of its kind in the state. He has come to make a specialty, in fact, of warehouse construction, and has put up, sometimes within the shortest time on record, some of the most attractive structures hereabouts. He has thus set a pace, and established a standard in construction, while never allowing the trend to deviate or the quality to deteriorate, and it may well be ascribed to him that he has done much to form a healthy and artistic public taste in architectural art. He is a member of the Board of Freeholders, and in that official capacity is also able and disposed to exert what influence he can for the betterment of the community at large. He is president of the Sacramento Builders’ Exchange, and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. In national politics, he is a Republican.
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July 5, 1903, Mr. Norris married Miss Maggie Cox of
Transcribed 6-19-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 898. Historic Record Company,
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.