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ALBERT L. BARNES
California owes much to its
experienced and highly-progressive hotel men, among whom one finds Albert L.
Barnes, the efficient and popular manager of both the Hotel Stockton and the
Hotel Clark of Stockton. He was born at
Buffalo, New York, on January 15, 1882 and was sent to the public schools of
that city and the high school in Painesville, Ohio. Then he took a course at the business college
at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after that associated himself with the
American Window Glass Company, and then the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company,
both in Pittsburgh.
In 1907 he located in Stockton, and
soon thereafter entered the hotel business as a clerk, first with the Imperial
and then with the Yosemite Hotel. When
A. I. Wagner became the proprietor of the Hotel Stockton in 1910, Mr. Barnes
became associated with him as assistant manager; and ten years later, when Mr.
Wagner took the management of the Hotel Clark, Mr. Barnes became manager of
that hotel. At Mr. Wagner’s death in
August, 1921 Mr. Barnes was appointed manager of both hotels, and this
responsible position he now fills to everybody’s satisfaction.
In 1907 at Oakland, Mr. Barnes
married Miss Alma Wagner, a native of Ventura, and since coming to Stockton
both Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have taken an active part in
the city’s civic and club life. He is a
charter member of the Stockton Lions Club, belongs to Lodge No. 218 of the
Stockton Elks, and to the Masons, being a member of the Stockton Lodge of
Perfection, No. 12, S. R., and also the Sciots.
He has a membership in the Stockton Golf and Country Club, the Yosemite
Club, the Stockton Ad Club, and the Stockton Chamber of Commerce. With a natural aptitude for the important
field he has chosen, and plenty of patriotic pride as well as patriotic
optimism, Mr. Barnes has set before himself the task of making his hotels among
the best in the state, regardless of the size of the city in which they are
located.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1355. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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