San Francisco County
Biographies
RICHARD JOSEPH HUNTINGTON
HUNTINGTON, RICHARD JOSEPH, Pacific
Coast Manager Otis Elevator Company, San Francisco, was born at Springfield, Mass.,
March 15, 1870, the son of Loring and Lucy Hannah (Dransfield) Huntington. He
married Abbie Jane Wallace at Springfield, Mass.,
and there is one child, Virginia Huntington.
Mr. Huntington
was educated in the Springfield
public schools until 1888, when he went into the employ of the Smith &
Wesson Manufacturing Company.
He worked five
years for this concern becoming an expert in sighting target rifles and
revolvers. In 1893 he entered the employ of the Elektron Manufacturing Company,
builders of electric elevators and other electric machinery. He was promoted rapidly while in their
employ, until, in 1902, he was appointed New York manager for the concern. After four years in this responsible office
he caught the eye of Otis Elevator Company, and, in 1906, became associated
with them.
In 1907 he was
sent to Los Angeles, in charge of the Southern
California department. He
took care of the immense business incident to the growth of that section in a
manner so satisfactory to the home company that he was advanced to the post of
Pacific Coast Manager, in charge of all sales and installation in Washington,
Oregon, California, adjacent
states and Hawaiian Islands.
He is a man of
affairs aside from his Otis connections. He is a director of the Prudential
Financing Company of Los Angeles,
and vice president of the Prudential Improvement Company.
He is a member of
the Jonathan and the Rotary clubs, the Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco
Commercial Club, the Humane Society, the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Y. M. C. A., and the National Geographic
Society.
Transcribed
by Pat Seabolt.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page
532, International News
Service, New
York,
Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2007 Pat Seabolt.
California Biography Project
San Francisco County
California Statewide
Golden Nugget Library