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FRED
DEPLER PARR
Fred Depler Parr, chairman of the Board of Parr-Richmond
Terminal Company, and Parr-Richmond Industrial Corporation, was born in
Visalia, California, September 13, 1885, son of John Rice and Bertha B. (Depler) Paar (sic). Received his
education in the public schools of Visalia, California, and Heald’s
Business College of San Francisco.
Mr. Parr began his career as a
bookkeeper for E. J. Dodge Company, later becoming assistant manager. He
established the Parr-McCormick Steamship Line, which he later sold to McCormick
Steamship Company now a part of Pope & Talbot Lines, Inc. He is president
of Parr-Moss Landing Terminal Company, De Luxe Homes,
Inc., Santa Inez Fisheries, Inc., president of Red Rock Fisheries, Inc., vice
president Atlas Chemical Company, chairman of the Board of General Warehouse
Company, Seattle Warehouse Company and Parr Warehouse Company.
President of Goodwill Industries of
San Francisco; member of Marine Terminal Association of Central California; treasurer
of California Association of Port Authorities; past president of California
Safety Council; honorary director of Richmond Chamber of Commerce; director of
Armstrong College in Berkeley; trustee of College of Pacific; member of Board
of Governors of San Francisco Bay Area Council; director San Francisco Bay
Ports Commission; director of Boys’ Clubs of America, Inc.; Northern California
chairman of Save the Children Federation, Inc.; Pacific Coast chairman of
Golden Rule Foundation; commissioner and vice chairman of the San Francisco
Recreation and Park Commission; president of the San Francisco Church Extension
Society; director of Contra Costa County Development Association; director and
past president of No. 1-A District of Agriculture Association (Cow Palace);
past president California Church Council; past president of Northern
California-Western Nevada Council of Churches, and member of Temple Methodist
Church of San Francisco.
Mr. Parr is a Mason (Shriner); Elk; and member of Commercial, Commonwealth,
Kiwanis, and Olympic Clubs, San Francisco.
Home: 170 24th Avenue, San Francisco,
California.
Offices: No 1 Drumm Street,
San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 573, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies