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PAUL E.
LAKIN
P.E. Lakin, vice president of Shell Oil Company of San
Francisco, was born in Orting, Washington, on March 9, 1892. The
son of Edgar M. and Josephine (Keefer) Lakin.
His education was obtained at the
University of California, 1912 to 1915.
Mr. Lakin
began his career in 1912 as engineer for the Copper River Northwest Railway. He
is a veteran of thirty-five years of service with the Shell Oil Company,
joining them as a clerk in 1915 at the company’s Seattle, Washington, office
and in the next fifteen years, following experience as a salesman and acting
manager, he was promoted to positions as district manager in Vancouver and
Portland, Oregon. In 1931 he was named assistant manager of the company’s
Northern Division. Two years later, he was appointed sales manager of the
mid-continent territory with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, and in 1936
he became vice president of marketing. He returned to the West Coast as vice
president in January, 1949, where he has been senior representative on the
Pacific Coast since 1949 and is also director of the company.
He was president of the Guardian Oil
Company in 1933; general sales manager of Shell Petroleum Corporation, St.
Louis, Missouri, from 1934 to 1936; director of Shell American Petroleum
Company since 1936, of Shell Oil Company since 1945, and of American petroleum
Institute since 1949.
During World War I he served as
first lieutenant, Aviation, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-19. His hobbies
are golf and photography.
Mr. Lakin
married Julia Evelyn Newhouse on July 17, 1917. They have one daughter, Jewel.
Residence: 850 Powell Street, San Francisco, California.
Office: 100 Bush Street, San Francisco 6, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 290, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies