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PARKER
SIMMONS MADDUX
Parker
Simmons Maddux, banker, was born in Dixon, California, on May 29, 1880; the son
of Lafayette Jackson and Mary Blythe (Simmons).
He is a graduate of the University
of Californian (1902), Harvard Law School (1905), and was admitted to practice
before the California bar in 1905. After leaving college he engaged in private
practice in San Francisco until 1910 when he was appointed assistant United
States Attorney for the Northern District of California, which position he
retained until 1912.
Mr. Maddux began his banking career
as counsel for the Savings Union Bank and Trust Company in 1913, becoming vice
president and director in 1919. With the consolidation of that bank with the
Mercantile National Bank of San Francisco he was appointed vice president and
director of the latter in 1920 and its successor, the American Trust Company.
He became affiliated with the San Francisco Bank as executive vice president
and director in 1930 and was elected president in 1933, which position he still
holds. During the period from 1920 to 1930 he held official positions or
directorships in eighteen banking or other corporations.
For many years Mr. Maddux has been
affiliated in an official capacity with organizations and institutions operated
for relief, cultural, and social benefit of the community, nation, and foreign
countries as well as serving on San Francisco City and County Commissions,
including Committee of the Mayor of San Francisco in connection with the United
Nations Conference, also San Francisco Park and Fire Commissions; National
Director of Greek War Relief, Incorporated; treasurer of National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, of Northern California; trustee of de Young Museum,
Californians, Inc., United Seaman’s Service, San Francisco Port Area; director
of Golden Gate International Exposition; treasurer of Nursing Home for Blind
Babies Committee; Texas City Disaster Fund; director of Columbia Park Boys
Club, Lucinda Foundation, and was recipient in 1944 of the National Citizenship
award by Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is a member of Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity; Pacific Union, Commercial, Press, and St. Francis Yacht Clubs (San
Francisco); Bankers Club (New York); Scottish Rite and
Mystic Shrine of the Masons.
In 1905 Mr. Maddux married Edith
Marion Walker (deceased, 1932) and by this marriage has two children, Jackson
and Meredith. In 1933 he married Grace Helen Butler. The family home is at 2868
Vallejo Street, San Francisco, California.
Offices in the San
Francisco Bank, 526 California Street, San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 294, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies