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HERBERT CAMPBELL COWARD
COWARD, HERBERT CAMPBELL, General Manager of the California
Salt Co., San Francisco, California,
was born in Oakland, California,
November 24, 1870. Both his father,
Hamilton Graham Coward, and his mother, Mary (Leas) Coward, were Marylanders
and descended from Revolutionary stock, originally English. He married in Oakland,
January, 1909, Miss Eloise Terol, and is the father
of two daughters, Nettie and Phyllis Coward. Mr. Coward’s schooling was scant, consisting
in all of three years, from 1879 to 1882, in the grammar
school of Oakland.
He
first worked in the hardware store of George S. Browne, at Oakland. He saved money and bought an interest with
his brother, M. G. Coward, in the Sausalito News, and worked in the engineering
department of the State Harbor Commission.
In 1891 he started in the salt business in a small way in Oakland.
In
October, 1910, he incorporated the Continental Salt and Chemical Company in Alameda
County, and on the absorption of this concern by the Salt Trust,
thirty days later, withdrew and formed the California Salt Company. This company supplies the markets along the
coast of California, Washington, Oregon,
Alaska and in the Hawaiian Islands.
Transcribed by Betty Vickroy.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page
704, International News
Service, New
York,
Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2007 Betty Vickroy.
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