Sacramento County
Biographies
CARL F.
VINING
CARL F. VINING.--Whatever else Carl F. Vining, the popular contractor of 2909 G Street, Sacramento, may or may not be able to do, he will prove to everybody’s entire satisfaction, that in matters of electrical, calling for a knowledge of the latest scientific word, and an application of the latest methods and apparatus, the capital city is on the map, and there to stay. Born at Dalton, Ga., on July 5, 1885, he first came to this section about seventeen years ago. Felix J. Vining, the lumber and cotton-gin man, was his father, who had married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Cain; and both are still living, to enjoy the devotion of a circle of admiring friends, and to feel a satisfaction in having lived in such an age of progress. They sent Carl to both grammar and high school, in his native Georgia district, and when he had said good-bye to school books, he was in the steel mills in Alabama for a couple of years. Then, having previously learned the rudiments of the electrical game, while at Chattanooga, Tenn., he took it up in earnest; and coming out to California in 1906, he came to Sacramento, convinced that here lay his destiny.
Mr. Vining worked as a journeyman, and then was superintendent for Messrs. Scott, Lyman & Stack, for two years, and in 1918 he engaged in business for himself. He did the electrical work in the Zellerback Paper Company Building and that of the Goodyear Tire Co., and the Bowman Carriage Factory, as well as that of the Avery Tractor Plant, and the Union Stage Depot, Fifth and I Streets, Sacramento; and for many of the finest individual residences, apartments and flats. This volume of business requires the services of five or more men to help turn out the steady volume of work. He is a member of the Sacramento Electrical Club, and gives his support to the Sacramento Builders’ Exchange. He is a Republican.
Miss Grace Emily Kelly, a native daughter of Sacramento, became Mrs. Vining on August 7, 1917, the ceremony occurring at Sacramento; and they have three children, John Sydney, Doris Eileen and Emily Ruth. Mr. Vinging is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and he finds recreation in both the Shrine and the Sciots. He belongs to Lodge No. 6 of the Elks, and to the Redjacket No. 28 of the Red Men. He likes to hunt and fish, which is another way of saying that he finds Sacramento a sporting county worth coming a long way to enjoy.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
956. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.