ERNEST A. WESTON

ERNEST A. WESTON.--An efficient and popular director credited with exceptional executive ability and always fortunate in promoting the best relations between the public and one of the most necessary public utilities in Sacramento, is Ernest A. Weston, the wide-awake division superintendent of the gas department of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What he does not know about the problems of gas-making and gas-delivery under the conditions prevalent in the municipality of today is hardly worth knowing; and yet Mr. Weston is an industrious student, alert to every change for the better, and quite aware of some changes for the worse, made in various corners of the gas industrial field.

Ernest A. Weston is a native of the Dominion of Canada, where he first saw light at Quebec in 1882, and grew up for a while in his native country, the son of S. W. and Mary Weston, who came into the States and out to California at such an early date that Ernest A. was able to attend the California schools, after his ninth year. His educational training included the excellent high school course at Alhambra, supplemented by a fine business college course in Los Angeles. Then, unwilling to go forward with mostly theoretical training, he learned the machinist's trade, and so got down to the most practical problems and fortified himself by actual, personal experience.

Mr. Weston came to learn the details of gas plant management, and for a while was with the Southern California Edison Company as the superintendent of their gas plants at various places. He was also located for a while at Los Angeles, where he much enlarged his experience, and for seven years following he was the superintendent of the gas plant of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, at Fresno.

In 1919, Mr. Weston came to Sacramento, being transferred, in the service of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and on December 1, 1920, he was promoted to his present position, his elevation to that responsibility being adequate proof, if any were needed, of the fidelity and the success with which he had discharged his duties, both to the manufacturer and the consumer, in the meantime. Besides Sacramento, he has had supervision of both Woodland and Davis, and this adds much to his routine program. Mr. Weston finds suitable recreation in golf and tennis. He belongs to the Elks, and it is needless to say he is among the most welcome members. He is also a Master Mason, holding a membership in Washington Lodge No. 20, F. & A. M., Sacramento, and also belongs to the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 7/19/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 966. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.