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EDWIN
BALDWIN De GOLIA
Edwin
Baldwin De Golia, president of Sir Francis Drake
Hotel Company, was born in Placerville, California, on March 17, 1869; son of
Darwin and Lavinia (Baldwin) De Golia.
After graduating from high school in
1886 he was a student at University of California, 1889.
Mr. De Golia
began his career in 1890 in the insurance business; then president of Central
Eureka Mining Company from 1898 to 1908. In 1903 he organized the Atolia Mining Company of which he was president from 1903
to 1911. In the insurance business from 1906 to date.
Currently carrying on an insurance brokerage business.
Mr. De Golia
financed the building of the Huntington and Cathedral Apartment Hotels at San
Francisco; builder and sole owner of the Maurice Hotel; also owner of the
President Hotel at Palo Alto, California; President of the Sir Francis Drake
Hotel Company of San Francisco; part owner and operator of the St. Francis
Hotel of San Francisco. Director of California State Hotel
Association of Northern California, and California State Hotel Association.
President of gold dredging companies
operating in California; vice president and director of Hillcone
Steamship Company and Deconhill Shipping Company;
director of Parr-Richmond Terminal Company; chairman of the Citizens Committee
for the Oakland Bay Bridge from its inception until the Toll Bridge Authority
was established by Act of California Legislation then was on the Advisory
Committee until its completion. Vice president of the Western Hotels, Inc., who
operate a chain of 28 hotels on the Pacific Coast; past president of California
State Automobile Association; director of American Automobile Association,
Washington, D.C.
Mr. De Golia
is a Republican; Episcopalian; Mason (3rd degree); and member of the
Olympic Club of San Francisco.
On March 18, 1892 he married Nettie
Gates (died in 1910); children: Harold Gates, Edwin B. (deceased) and Yvonne B.
(Mrs. H. J. Cornish). In July of 1912 he married (2nd) Eva Rockwell.
Home: 450 Sutter St. (Sir Francis Drake Hotel), San
Francisco, California.
Offices: Robert Dollar Building, San Francisco,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 243, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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