San Francisco County
Biographies
FRANK A.
MAYCUMBER
The Empire state has furnished to San Francisco many desirable citizens and enterprising business men of the type of Frank A. Maycumber, who is one of the officers of the Arthur Metal Products Company and an executive of wide experience. He was born in Preble, Cortland county, New York, April 5, 1879, a son of Frank B. Maycumber, and is of Scotch lineage. The American progenitor of the family came to this country as a passenger on the Mayflower and some of his descendants served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war. Frank B. Maycumber was a lifelong resident of the state of New York and in addition to farming he engaged in the lumber business at Cortland, where his demise occurred. He had married Cora Aldrich, a native of Cortland county and a member of a family closely related to the Gillettes, who are widely known in New York.
Frank A. Maycumber, an only child, attended the public schools of Syracuse, New York, and continued his studies at the University of Syracuse. Starting out in life for himself at the age of twenty, he was first employed as a clerk in a Cortland hardware store and was paid four dollars per week. From this humble beginning he worked his way steadily upward, becoming sales manager for the Yale & Towne Company, manufacturers of the Yale locks, and in 1917 came to San Francisco. Here he aided in organizing the Grinnell Company and was connected with the firm for two years. Afterward he spent five years in the east, serving as vice president and general sales manager of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company from 1919 until 1924, when he returned to San Francisco. At that time he was elected president and treasurer of F. R. Cruikshank & Company, occupying the offices for six years, and then disposed of his interest in the business. In 1930 he formed the Arthur Metal Products Company for the manufacture of roll screens and is secretary and treasurer of the corporation. In their modern, well equipped plant on Harrison street they employ about forty people and their manufactured products are covered by patents. Their trade extends throughout the United States and they also make shipments to Canada. The business has enjoyed a rapid growth and in its development and control Mr. Maycumber has played a conspicuous part. He devotes deep thought and study to his work and constantly has some new plan in the making.
In Albany, New York, on the 19th of December, 1903, Mr. Maycumber was married to Emma Rickert, of Schenectady, and they have become the parents of a daughter, Marion C., who was born in Schenectady, June 22, 1905. Mr. Maycomber gives his political support to the republican party and his religious views are in harmony with the doctrines of the Espicopal Church. At Cortland he was inducted into Cortlandville Lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., and subsequently became identified with all the Masonic bodies of New York state. He is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Palo Alto, California, and he largely finds his recreation through his membership in the Los Altos Golf & Country Club. His residence is at 170 Lowell avenue, Palo Alto, and his office is situated in the Hunter-Dulin building at 111 Sutter street, San Francisco. Throughout life he has closely applied himself to the work in hand, never undertaking a task unless he considered it worthy of his best efforts, and his is a record of steady progress and successful achievement.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of
San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1931. Vol. 2 Pages 187-189.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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