Sacramento County
Biographies
EMERSON
WORRELL READ
EMERSON WORRELL READ.--A very interesting representative of the California bar in Sacramento County, whose life-companion is also gifted and shares the esteem and popularity of her husband, is Emerson Worrell Read, by profession an attorney-at-law, of Sacramento, likewise vice-president of the substantial Farmers & Mechanics Bank. He was born on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in Round Valley, Mendocino County, Cal., on March 12, 1883, the son of Major William Edwards Read, who had married Miss Joanna Stephens Davis. He graduated from the Mission high school, San Francisco, in 1901, later matriculating at the University of California. In 1906, he was granted the Bachelor of Letters degree; and two years later, having taken up the study of jurisprudence at the Hastings College of Law, he had conferred upon him the coveted degree of Bachelor of Laws.
From 1908 until 1921, Mr. Read actively practiced law, being associated with Messrs. Campbell & Baldwin, attorneys for the San Francisco Savings Union, from 1907 to 1910, and privately practicing law with Hon. Chas. H. Wilson in San Francisco until 1915, and with Messrs. Devlin and Devlin, of Sacramento, from 1915 until 1920. He became a stockholder in the Farmers & Mechanics Bank, and in 1920 was made vice-president, secretary and treasurer. He is a director of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, is a faculty member of the Sacramento Law School, and is now law instructor for the Sacramento Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. He is a director of Sacramento Community Chest, and being a lawyer, incorporated that corporation. He was a director of the Mining Camp of the ’49 Celebration.” He is now president of the Sacramento Lions Club.
At Ukiah, Mendocino County, in June, 1909, Mr. Read and Miss Alice Mary Gorham were made man and wife, the wedding proving one of the delightful social events of the season. The bride was the daughter of M. J. Gorham, president of the United Undertakers, Inc., and Delia Gorham, of San Francisco, and a graduate of the State Normal School in that city, and she also had finished successfully the thorough courses of the Girls’ high school of Sacramento. Three children have been born of this union: Emerson Williams Read, now eleven years old, and his sister, Alice Mary, two years his junior, and Constance Patricia Read, thirteen months old. Mr. Read belongs to Occidental Lodge No. 22, F. & A. M.; to Sacramento Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West; and to the Lions Club of Sacramento; and is a past president of the Dolphin Boating Club, of the same city, and a past president of the Sons of Veterans. He is valued as a counselor in the Republican leaders’ ranks.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 937.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.