EDWIN TAYLOR WALL

Sacramento County

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EDWIN TAYLOR WALL

EDWIN TAYLOR WALL—A wide-awake optimistic executive, whose heavy responsibilities and tasks have been lightened through his invaluable experience and his genial temperament, is Edwin Taylor Wall, the superintendent of dredges, with the Natomas Company. He was born in {Pendleton, Madison County, Ind., on February 2, 1867, the son of John Taylor and Phoebe Louise (Wynn) Wall, the former a division superintendent of the Bellefontaine Railroad, and also a man of wide experience, who, with his good wife, is now deceased, the worthy couple being recalled with esteem by all who knew them.

Edwin Taylor Wall received a grammar school and high school training, the Indiana schools of his district being unusually good. Because his father had died when he was seven years of age, he lived on the farm of an uncle until he was eighteen and had finished his studies. Then he went to work on a dredge, digging a canal in Warren County, Ind., and he was in the employ of this county for ten years, after which he worked on a section of the drainage canal in Chicago, where for three years he had charge of steam-shovels and locomotives. Next, he went to Avon, Mont., to work on a gold dredge for W. M. Johnson, and then, in 1898, he went for two years to Oroville, for John W. Ferris.

Twenty years ago, Mr. Wall came to the Natomas Company, and with the exception of a short period when he had charge of the blacksmith shop, he always acted as foreman. A man of exceptional, acknowledged ability, and one very devoted to whomever or whatever he associates himself with, Mr. Wall has come to be equally acceptable to his employers and his fellow employees.

Mr. Wall married Miss Jane Wallace, of Indiana, and they have had four children: R. B. is the eldest; John T. went to France as one of the United States aviators; William Wallace was chief electrician in the navy; while the youngest is Beatrice Elair, born in California. In politics, Mr. Wall is a Republican; fraternally, he is a Mason of the thirty-second degree and a Shriner, belongs to the Woodmen of the World and for the past thirty-five years has been an Odd Fellow.

Transcribed by Gloria Wiegner Lane.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 649. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.