Sacramento County
Biographies
HERBERT EDWARD YARDLEY
During the long period of his
identification with his present line of business Mr. Yardley has developed an
undertaking establishment that stands in the very front rank of institutions of
the kind in Sacramento. When in 1893 he purchased the undertaking business
of Clark & Booth and assumed the management of the place of which he
remains the proprietor, he was brought into associations different from those
of former business connections, but he proved equal to all emergencies and soon
acquired a comprehensive knowledge of every detail. Personal
qualifications admirably adapt him for successful business pursuits.
Tactful in manner, accommodating in disposition, quick in decision and
sagacious in judgment, he belongs to that class of citizens whose presence has
been most beneficial to the advancement of the capital city along
lines of permanent progress. The honor of being a member of the Native
Sons of the Golden West comes to Mr. Yardley through his birth in Yolo county, where his parents, James and Elizabeth Yardley, had
established a home on the then frontier. The death of both of the parents
in their early maturity left the son, who was born in January of 1868, an
orphan ere he was old enough to fully comprehend the great loss incident to
such a bereavement. An aunt, Mrs. W. H. Wright, residing in Sacramento, took him into her home and sent him to the grammar school
and later to the high school, so that he was prepared for the responsibilities
of self-support. When only fifteen years of age he secured a clerkship in
the drug store owned by Frederick Kolliker, and for
ten years he continued in the same establishment, meanwhile receiving merited
promotion from time to time. When finally he resigned his connection with
the establishment it was for the purpose of starting a drug store of his own,
and that business he conducted on Eighth and J streets until 1893, when he sold
out and entered the undertaking business.
With his wife, who was Miss Russia Lubeck, and whom he married in Auburn, this state, in 1896, Mr. Yardley occupies a position of
accepted prominence in the social circles of Sacramento. Various organizations, fostered by the most
cultured citizens of the town, have received his co-operation and intelligent
aid. Notwithstanding the pressure of business duties he always has taken
the leisure necessary for a study of national issues and political
conditions. In general elections he gives his support to the Republican party. The Elks and the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows receive his hearty assistance in their progressive projects for
fraternal upbuilding, while socially he belongs to
the Sutter club. An expert marksman and fond of hunting as a
recreation, he enjoys the pastime in company with other members of the Glide
Gun club. Perhaps no organization has enlisted his sympathetic
co-operation in larger degree than the Masonry. For years he has been a
disciple of the order, a participant in its philanthropies and a believer in
its uplifting principles of brotherhood. Beginning with the blue lodge,
he rose through the various degrees until he became associated with the Knights
Templar and Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and as such he maintains a leading
part in Masonic affairs in his home city. Mr. Yardley is a man of wide
enterprise that has for its object the upbuilding of
his adopted city, in which he has achieved a marked degree of success in his
individual as well as public undertakings that he has fostered.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Pages 637-638. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.