Sacramento County
Biographies
LLOYD G. WARREN
In view of the fact that he is still at the beginning of
what promises to be an exceptionally useful career, the success that already
has rewarded the purposeful and intelligent efforts of Mr. Warren easily places
him among the most efficient business men of Sacramento, where as president and
manager of the Warren Lumber Company he holds a leading association with a
growing commercial concern of the capital city.
It has been a matter of surprised comment among new acquaintances to
observe in him a most accurate judgment as to the relative merits of different
qualities of lumber and a keen discrimination in the making of purchases for
his yards. Such qualifications as he
possesses would lead to eventual success in practically every line of
enterprise, but indicate especial adaptation for his chosen calling, in the
pursuance of which he is winning the confidence of customers and the regard of
other men of business.
The Warren
family was established in the west many years ago and claims identification
with commonwealth activities from the period of pioneer privations and
hardships. Mr. Warren himself is a
native of San Francisco and was
born April 23, 1890, into
the home of Samuel I. Warren, an industrious workingman of the western
metropolis. The religious associations
of the family governed the education of the son, who was instructed not only in
common branches of study, but also in the history and doctrines of the Roman
Catholic church, and he has been a lifelong member of that denomination. After he had completed the course of study in
St. Ignatius college he began to earn his own
livelihood, securing employment in 1906 with the Bellingham Bay Lumber
Company. From a very humble position he
was quickly promoted to a post of greater trust and responsibility. When he left that company it was for the
purpose of going to Washington,
and there he engaged with the commission house of W. R. Grace & Co., at Seattle. During March of 1910 he resigned and
immediately afterward organized the commission firm of L. G. Warren & Co.,
which he managed until August of the following year. Upon selling out the business he removed to Sacramento
and purchased the interests of the Tiernan-Dinning
Lumber Company. The name was changed to
the Warren Lumber Company, of which he is the president and manager, his large
business talent being devoted with intense earnestness to the problem of
increasing the sales of the company and enhancing its popularity among
customers through the strict adherence to the most honorable business methods. He is also engaged in the automobile tire
business as proprietor of the Republic Rubber Company of Sacramento,
handling the Republic tire.
In
Sacramento Mr. Warren
was united in marriage with Miss Gertrude Casey, a native of this city, and
they have a daughter. As a baritone Mr.
Warren has had considerable experience in amateur opera, playing the leading
parts in “Mikado,” “The Gondoliers,” “King Zim of Zanzibar,”
and also taking the part of Pontius Pilot in the Passion Play
production given in San Francisco
in October, 1909. Giving his attention
very closely to business, it has not been possible for Mr. Warren to enter the
arena of political activity, yet he has kept posted concerning national issues
and has been staunch in his allegiance to the Democratic party.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Pages 600-603. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2005 Sally Kaleta.