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OWEN L. RECORD
One
of Weed’s more popular citizens is Owen L. Record, manager of the Black Butte
club room which, under his supervision, is conducted in a manner that has
gained for it the patronage of the representative people of the community. He was born in Kokomo County, Indiana,
November 27, 1884, a son of John and Della (Tunnes)
Record, the former born near Riley, North Carolina, and the latter in
Ohio. John Record was a successful
physician and surgeon in Indiana, and is now living in San Diego,
California. His wife still maintains her
Indiana home.
Owen
L. Record was educated in the public schools of his native state, after which
he learned the trade of iron molding and machine shop work. He was later employed in the rubber business
in Kokomo, after which he worked for two and a half years for the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Company. He then joined his
grandfather, Laban Tunnes,
in the meat and grocery business, with which he was identified until 1911, when
he came to the west. En route he stopped
at St. Louis, Missouri, for a year, and one year Albuquerque, New Mexico. From there he went to Los Angeles,
California, where he conducted a club-house.
In that city he lost a fortune in bad investments, after which he went
to San Francisco, where he was connected with a club-house for some time. His next move was to Reno, Nevada, where he
was associated in business with George Wingfield, a
very wealthy mining man, for a short time.
He went from there to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he remained a year and
then to Sacramento where he opened a cigar store and club room. In 1927 he came back to Weed and is now in
charge of the Black Butte card room. In 1921 Mr. Record was united in marriage to
Mrs. Maxine McDonald. He is a member of
the Los Angeles Lodge, No. 99, B. P. O. E.; Los Angeles Lodge No. 134, L. O. O.
M.; Los Angeles Post No. 77, A. L., at Los Angeles, and Seattle Aerie, F. O.
E., at Seattle, Washington, the last named being the mother aerie of the
order. The fact that his father was a
physician long ago gave Owen L. the nickname “Doctor” and it has clung to him,
so that he is popularly known by that title.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 206-207. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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