Sacramento County
Biographies
JOHN T.
WILCOX
JOHN T. WILCOX.--A business man who has done much toward the economic organization and the development of the facilities for meeting the every-varying, fast-increasing demands of the motoring public, is John T. Wilcox, the president of the Auto-Parts Exchange at 1901 J Street, Sacramento, an establishment which motorists both in the city and the county of Sacramento have come to look upon with the friendliest and the most grateful of feelings, for it has proven of the greatest public service. Mr. Wilcox was born on the Atlantic Ocean, on January 9, 1879. His parents, who came from England, were honored pioneers, R. H and Emily Louise (Gunstone) Wilcox, the former now deceased, while the devoted wife and mother is still living.
John T. Wilcox attended the public schools as long as he could be spared, until he began to make his own way by work in the mines. He came to Sacramento, in 1912, and here he engaged in auto-wrecking; and in 1915 he and W. Q. O’Neall incorporated their company, under the name of “Auto-Parts Exchange,” the foundation of Mr. Wilcox’s present business. Since then he has made this kind of work his exclusive business, specializing in taking automobiles to pieces and in selling reliable parts. The firm employ nine men, and their mail-order business alone would prove alluring to any modest shop of the kind. They fill orders for customers as remote as in Nevada and Southern Oregon, and Northern California look to the Auto-Parts Exchange for the best of all that is needed. Mr. Wilcox belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and never fails to back up that excellent organization so vital to Sacramento and vicinity.
Mr. Wilcox was married at Sacramento, in 1915, when he chose Miss Gladys Suber for his wife; and Emily Louise and Richard Thomas are their children. Mr. Wilcox is a Mason and also an Odd Fellow.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages
961-962. Historic Record Company, Los
Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.