WILLIAM H. PIMENTEL

Sacramento County

Biographies

WILLIAM H. PIMENTEL

WILLIAM H. PIMENTEL.--A progressive operator very familiar with Sacramento County transportation problems is William H. Pimentel, the wide-awake and very accommodating part-proprietor of the Hagginwood-North Sacramento Motor Stage-line. He has a motto known to all patrons: “Best service for the money,” and to this he often adds: “and no delays, if possible, in transportation.”

He was born in Sonora, Tuolumne County, on June 30, 1891, the son of Frank and Julia (Milton) Pimentel, the former a native of Boston, who came West in 1852 to seek gold. He located mines in Tuolumne County, and remained until six years prior to his death, in April, 1922, as a farmer and pioneer prospector. Previous to his death he had moved to Modesto, where he died. Our subject is the eighth child, in the order of birth, of nine children, of whom five survive the parents, the devoted wife and mother, lamented like her husband, having died in 1900.

William Pimentel was reared in the Mother Lode of Tuolumne County, and at the age of thirteen commenced to support himself by working as a delivery boy for the MacCormick wholesale and retail butcher business, working with this company thirteen years. Only once was this engagement interrupted, and that was when, for thirteen months, he served as a clerk in the Wells Fargo Express at Third and Townsend Streets, San Francisco.

Mr. Pimentel has devoted the past eight years to the study of, and the operation of motor stages and the possible business therein, in northern California, being a charter member of the Old Star Line, of Stockton, in the formation of which, in 1915, he was a prime mover, to operate motor-busses throughout the San Joaquin Valley. He came from Stockton to Sacramento to Hagginwood and North Sacramento. They own and operate only White truck vehicles, said to be eminently satisfactory in affording continuously superior service. He and his partner, S. C. Houck, were successors to A. M. Fowler, who founded the stage line. Mr. Pimentel is the vice-president of the Hagginwood farm bureau, and a charter member of the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Ever ready to serve the community, he is a member of the Volunteer Fire Department of North Sacramento; he acts as custodian of the fire engine of his district, and realizing his ability, the fire commissioner of North Sacramento appointed him deputy fire warden. He is public-spirited and ready to give of his time and means to advance the community which he has selected as his home.

The marriage of Mr. Pimentel to Miss Hazel H. Houck, of Sonora, occurred at Stockton in November, 1914. Miss Houck was born at Sonora, the daughter of Mr. Pimentel’s partner, a pioneer of Tuolumne County, and now a resident of Sacramento. Two children have been born to this worthy couple, Neva and Wilma Jean. Mr. Pimentel is a Mason of the Blue Lodge.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 922. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.