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ED G. WHITE
Ed
G. White, of Loyalton, one of the leading automobile
dealers and service men in the Genesee Valley, is the authorized Ford dealer
and has built up a business which would do credit to a city many times the size
of this. He was born in Sierraville, California, October 13, 1901, and is a son of
D. G. and Cora (Dolley) White, the former born in New
Brunswick and the latter in Sierraville, California,
though the Dolley’s were originally from the state of
Maine. D. G. White was a lumberman at Sierraville to the time of his death in 1913. The maternal grandfather, L. Dolley, who died in 1913, was for many years a dealer in
general merchandise at Sierraville, and his old store
is now owned and conducted by his son Fred.
Mrs. Cora White, who is fifty-five years of age, resides in Auburn. To D. G. and Cora White were born three
children: Ed G.; George, who lives in Loyalton and is employed as a locomotive engineer on the
Clover Valley logging road; and Dolly, the wife of R. R. Proctor, a lumberman
in San Bernardino county, this state.
Ed
G. White received his educational training in the public schools of Sierraville and of Auburn, California, to which place he
had moved with his widowed mother in 1914.
Soon afterward he entered the automobile business, going to work in the
Alpha garage at Nevada City. Later he
was similarly employed at Auburn and accepted a position in the automobile
department of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, where he had charge of
thirty cars. In 1922 he came to Loyalton and engaged in the automobile business for
himself, taking the local agency for the Ford cars. His predecessor in this agency had failed,
but from the beginning Mr. White kept the business on a solid foundation and it
was not long until definite success was his.
He employs three efficient workmen, and his place, whether in shop or
service station, is marked by an air of business activity which speaks well for
the sort of service that one receives here.
His shop is supplied with modern machinery and tools, and in every
department of his business the thought of satisfactory service is uppermost,
the result being that during the nine years in which he has conducted this
agency Mr. White has won a host of warm and appreciative friends, who are
boosters for him. He carries not only a
complete line of Ford parts, but also a large supply of Goodyear tires, the
prices of which are right. He is
actually one hundred per cent Ford, one hundred per cent Goodyear and one
hundred per cent Standard, and on these three dependable lines he has built his
success, being recognized as one of the leading automobile men in northeastern
California.
On September 10, 1924, in Auburn,
California, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Auburn Rechenmacher,
of that place, and they are the parents of two children, Roy and Lynn. Mr. White is a member of Loyalton
Lodge, No. 395, F. & A. M.; Granite Chapter, No. 94, R. A. M.; Lassen Commandery, No. 13, K. T., at Susanville; and Ben Ali
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Sacramento.
He takes a keen interest in the work of the various Masonic bodies. Because of his high character, business
ability and loyal citizenship he is greatly esteemed by everyone who knows him.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3 Pages 193-194. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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