San Francisco
County
LESTER
SPAULDING COREY
Lester
Spaulding Corey, president of Utah Construction Company and others, was born
November 20, 1880, in Uintah, Utah; son of George L. and Lucinda (Spaulding)
Corey. He received his general education in the public grade and high schools.
Mr. Corey has been associated with
the Utah Construction Company since 1901, successively as timekeeper,
paymaster, foreman, superintendent and assistant secretary, 1928 to 1930, then
secretary and treasurer from 1930 to 1931, manager from 1931 to 1940,
president, manager and director since 1940. He is also president and director
of the Utah Construction Limited (Australia), Utah Construction Company, Ltd.
(Canada), Cia Utah S. A. (Mexico), The Argonaut
Company, Ltd. (British Columbia, Canada), Utah Company of the Americas (Western
Hemisphere Corporation), Bonham Manufacturing Company (tractors), Utah Company
of Panama, Inc., and Ucoa, Inc.
Director of Woolridge
Manufacturing Company of Sunnyvale, California; Consolidated Builders, Inc.,
Permanente Cement Company; Permanente Steamship Company; Oregon Ship Builders Company
(also vice president); First Security Corporation (Bank Holding Company, Utah
and Idaho); Joshua Hendy Iron Works; Pacific National Bank of San Francisco;
and the following housing projects: Daly Acres, Inc.; Lewis Acres, Inc.;
Kirtland Heights, Inc.; Sandia Heights, Inc.; North Mather Heights, Inc.; and
South Mather Heights, Inc.
Mr. Corey is a Republican. Member of
the Masonic Lodge (32d); Olympic Club, San Francisco Golf Club, Family Club;
The Moles; and member and director of the American Standards Association.
On November 23, 1940, Mr. Corey
married Kathleen Doherty. He has one daughter by a previous marriage, Evelyn L.
and one son, Maxwell E.
Offices: 1 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 371, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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