Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM D.
THOMAS
WILLIAM D. THOMAS.--A man of high integrity whose experience also counts for much in the Sacramento business world, is William D. Thomas, wholesale dealer in lumber and active in manufacturing, with offices at Sacramento in the Capital National Bank Building. He was born in North Carolina on December 12, 1874, the son of C. W. R. and Samantha (Buie) Thomas, both descendants from old-time stock. His father’s forebears were American, but his mother’s were of Piedmont Scotch. C. W. R. Thomas was a farmer, and he operated rather extensively and as best he could under the hotter Southern skies.
William D. Thomas attended the public schools of North Carolina, and also went to the high school, and then he engaged in the lumber business in the Carolinas. This opportunity to add to his experience proved of great value later, when he came to Sacramento, in 1910, the same year when he arrived in the state; for from the first he met with success. He sells only at wholesale, and he has an interest in a sawmill in Plumas County. He supports the Democratic party.
Mr. Thomas was married, in 1909, to Miss Lura B. Brann, from Kansas, and now they have two children, Albert B and Evelyn I. Thomas. The esteemed companion shares Mr. Thomas’ public-spiritedness, and also feels a deep interest in the past, the present and the future of Sacramento County. California owes not a little to such men as William D. Thomas for the development of its resources, including that of lumber; and it is fair to expect that our subject may be heard from more and more as the years go by.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 918.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.