Sacramento County
Biographies
ALFRED E. PIERSON
ALFRED E. PIERSON.--An interesting
display, both of builders’ materials and of workmanship, is that of Alfred E.,
Pierson, the hard-wood floor expert, at 865 Santa Ynez Way, Sacramento. He was born at Aurora, Ill.,
on November 5, 1887, the son of James P. and Matilda (Anderson)
Pierson. The mother breathed her last
when our subject was a boy of five years of age. In October, 1916, Alfred Pierson came out to California
with his father, who established himself in business in Sacramento,
where he is highly esteemed as a carriage wood-worker.
Alfred
E. Pierson attended the public schools of Iowa, going
for a year to the Cedar Rapids high
school. Then he learned the wood-working
trade, as it applies to carriage-building, under his father’s guidance, and
followed that line of technical work for six years. Then he took up the
specialty now often in demand, the laying of hardwood floors,
and from 1907 to 1911 was with the Inlaid Floor Company of San
Francisco. In
the latter year, he joined the Sacramento Hardwood Floor Company. After a couple of years, feeling that he
ought to build and develop for himself, he established his own hardwood-floor
business, and since 1913 he has enjoyed an ever-increasing volume of
trade. Successful from the start, where
formerly he employed one man, he now keeps eleven busy. He has furnished all the hardwood flooring
for most of the better class of residences recently
constructed in Sacramento, and he also contracts both to furnish and to lay the
flooring.. He belongs to the Builders’
Exchange and the Exchange Luncheon Club.
In politics he is a Republican.
When
Mr. Pierson married, in 1912, he chose for his bride Miss Mable
Jensen, a native daughter and one of the popular belles of Sacramento;
and they have one child, Richard.
Fraternally, Mr. Pierson is a member of Capital Lodge, I. O. O. F., and
of Aerie No. 9 of the Eagles; and in the social circles of these organizations,
and elsewhere, he and his wife enjoy an enviable popularity.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 727. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.