San Francisco County
Biographies
RICHARD
SCOFIELD RHEEM
Richard Scofield Rheem, President and
director of Rheem Manufacturing Company, was born in
Oakland, California, on December 24, 1903; the son of William Sponsler and Helena (Stratton) Rheem.
He was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, 1921-22.
In 1926 Mr. Rheem
and his brothers formed The Pacific Galvanizing Company at Emeryville,
California. The successor firm of Rheem Manufacturing
Company was incorporated January 22, 1930, at Richmond, California, of which he
has been president and director since 1930. Also director of
de Young Museum of San Francisco.
Mr. Rheem
is a Republician; Presbyterian; Mason; and member of
the following clubs: Pacific-Union, Bohemian (San Francisco); The California (LosAngeles); Claremont Country (Berkeley, California);
Cloud (New York); Rainier (Seattle, Washington); Metropolitan (Washington,
D.C.); and Burlingame Country (California). Deepdale
CC (New York), Transpacific Yacht Club and LA Yacht Club, (Newport Beach, California) and Cruising Club of America (New York).
Mr. Rheem
married Constance Patterson on October 29, 1923, and has three children:
William Sponsler, Robert Scofield
and Constance De’Armand.
Home: 2828 Vallejo Street, San Francisco23,
California.
Offices: 570 Lexington Avenue, New York City 22, New
York; and Russ Building, San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 56, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies