Sacramento County
Biographies
JOY F.
WANAMAKER
JOY F. WANAMAKER.--Among Sacramento County’s progressive young business men is numbered Joy F. Wanamaker, who as secretary of the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce has done much to aid in the development of this new and thriving town. Mr. Wanamaker was born near Fort Scott, Kan., on April 28, 1896, the son of Newton P. and Alice E. (Finnicum) Wanamaker. The father passed away in 1898, and in 1909 Joy Wanamaker and his mother came to California, arriving in Sacramento in November of that year. Mrs. Wanamaker purchased a home, and continued to live there until 1918, when she bought a residence in North Sacramento, which she occupied until her death on March 30, 1920.
After his graduation from the grammar schools of Sacramento, in 1912, Joy F. Wanamaker entered the employ of the Natomas Company as junior clerk in the auditing department and was with them until 1914, when he accepted a position with the Wells Fargo Express Company at the Southern Pacific station at Sacramento, continuing there for two and a half years. During the World War he was in training at Reno, Nev., with the S. A. T. C. Previous to going to Reno, he had taken the civil service examination, and he entered the employ of the post-office at Sacramento, where he remained until 1921. Seeing the opportunity presented in the newly subdivided tract of land, now North Sacramento, Mr. Wanamaker decided to locate there, and disposing of the residence which he and his mother had purchased there, he bought a lot in a splendid location on the main business thoroughfare. Here he has built a new home and erected and equipped a modern service station, opening his place of business on September 21, 1921, it being the first in this line of business in the new town.
On April 28, 1917, Mr. Wanamaker was married to Miss Janet M. Gibson, the daughter of William H. Gibson of Sacramento, who is an old settler of the county and a prominent business man, being the proprietor of Gibson’s Sheet Metal Works. Mr. Wanamaker is a Mason, and a member in the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Sacramento, where he attended while a resident there, being a leader in the young people’s societies. A young man of exemplary principles, Mr. Wanamaker was a stanch worker for prohibition and is ever found working for every constructive movement that will be of benefit to the community.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 939.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.