Sacramento County
Biographies
ROY SWAIN POST
ROY SWAIN POST.--A contractor who is
both a very practical and an artistic interior decorator, and who is able, at
short notice, to undertake extensive work in general painting, is Roy Swain
Post, a native of South Bend, Ind.,
where he was born on August 2, 1888, the son of Swain A. And Retta (Speelman) Post. His
parents came to California in the winter of 1890,
settling first at San Francisco; and in 1900 they came to Sacramento. In
1909, S. A. Post, the father, died. He had been associated with C. H.
Krebs & Company’s paint-house for nine years. He was highly regarded
in his lifetime, and was honored as an able and honest man.
Roy
S. Post went to the Sacramento
public schools, and entered the employ of C. H. Krebs & Company, where he
remained from 1904 to 1912 taking up decorating and branching out into
contracting. Now he employs a large force of men to help him carry out the contracts with which he is constantly favored and
confines himsef (sic) to decorating the finer
homes. He opened a store and headquarters on March 15, 1921, at 1207
J Street and in February, 1912, moved to 1017
Ninth Street to a larger and more commodious store
where they are located at the present time. He belongs to the Sacramento
Chamber of Commerce and the Retail Merchants’ Association, and also to the
Lions Club.
Fraternally,
Mr. Post has been an Odd Fellow for a long time, being active in all branches
of the order. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and
belongs to Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Sacramento. He
is also a past patron of the Eastern Star. In national politics, he is one
of the long line of patriots claiming Lincoln, Grant,
McKinley, Roosevelt and Harding as honored and illustrious leaders.
Transcribed 7-16-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 963. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.