Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM F.
WALTERS
WILLIAM F. WALTERS.--A native son who has made his mark as a teaming contractor in a section of the country where teaming, in olden days, was a surer means of striking gold than to swing a pick and trust to luck, is William F. Walters, of 1810 C Street, Sacramento, in which city he was born on February 10, 1882. His father, William F. Walters, came to California as a young man, and set up as a butcher, and Miss Mary Burns, whom he married, also saw the Coast early, when she was a girl; he has been dead, but not forgotten, these twenty-seven years, but Mrs. Walters is still living, and her many friends are always glad to greet her.
William F. Walters enjoyed the training of both grammar and high schools, and when ready to go to work, took up teaming for a livelihood. He liked it so well that he engaged in business for himself in 1912, and now he has six head of horses in well-kept stables at the above-mentioned address, and no end of good patrons, who appreciate the value of his experience and his equipment, and the worth of his willingness and dependability. Recently, he hauled the sand for the Chamber of Commerce Building, and Bruner’s New Addition; and he is in such demand by leading contractors that they alone might easily keep him employed. It has come to be understood that when once Will Walters is on the job, the job’s half finished.
In national politics a Democrat, William Walters is even more an American citizen, and quite as much a loyal booster of the section where he lives, works and prospers. He finds the historic past of Sacramento County interesting, and believes that the Sacramento of the future will be still more promising.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
957. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.