Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM A.
RAPP
WLLIAM A. RAPP.—A Busy, capable and energetic man of Sacramento is William A. Rapp, the owner and proprietor of William A. Rapp & Company, manufacturers of fine window shades; he first established his business in 1917, and during the six years that he has operated his business he has been obliged to move three times in order to get sufficient space for his rapidly increasing business. He is one of California’s native sons, born in Los Angeles, December 5, 1890, a son of William and Sarah (Preisser) Rapp. William Rapp came around the Horn to California in 1870 and located in southern California; the mother, in maidenhood Sarah Preisser, was born in Placer County. Grandfather Preisser was a pioneer and hauled the first load of granite for the Folsom state prison. William A. Rapp was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles and after his graduation from high school engaged in the window shade business, being with Talbert-Whitmore Company, manufacturers of shade cloth, for fourteen years. In August, 1917, he first established his business in Sacramento on Sixth Street. Undoubtedly a large share of his success is due to his faith in the future of the city of Sacramento, which is at all times apparent, and substantiated by his ownership of a home in the capital city. The products of the William A. Rapp Company are sent as far East as Montana and also shipped to Honolulu and far north in Oregon and Washington. Mr. Rapp is a director and vice-president of the Fred L. Meneley Company, Inc., manufacturers of shade cloth and window shades in Los Angeles.
The marriage of Mr. Rapp united him with Miss Ida Fredrickson, of Idaho, and they are the parents of three children: Wayne and Thayer, twins, and Audra. Mr. Rapp is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Ben Ali Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Sacramento. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 937-938.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.