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CLYDE E. CONDIT
An experienced and influential
businessman of Stockton, Clyde E. Condit is the proprietor of the Electric
& Machine Equipment Company located at 124 North El Dorado Street. A native of Iowa, he was born at Grinnell on
August 24, 1866, and received his education in the public schools of his native
city. Desiring to complete his education
to better equip himself for his chosen field of labor, he removed to California
and entered Stanford University and was graduated from that institution in 1891
as an electrical engineer; after his graduation he went to Goldfield, Nevada,
and entered the employ of the Nevada-California Power Company. This company erected the first steam power
plant in Nevada at Goldfield. Having
gained valuable practical experience while being employed with this company,
Mr. Condit resigned his position and entered the business arena for himself,
opening up as an electrical engineer and having for sale mining machinery, with
branch stores at Reno, Nevada, and San Francisco, California. Some time later he
sold his business and located in Portland, Oregon, where he entered the employ
of the Northwestern Electric Company. In
1917 he came to Stockton and purchased the Electric and Machine Equipment
Company, which was started in 1907 by L. F. Youdall. For two years he followed electrical
contracting, and equipped many of the large buildings in Stockton; in 1919 he
gave up contracting and has become a wholesale and retail dealer in electrical
supplies. He is a member of the Stockton
Chamber of Commerce; of the Merchants Association and the Yosemite Club. His twenty years’ experience, backed by a thorough
education along electrical lines, has enabled Mr. Condit to attain to and hold
an important and influential place in the business circles of his locality.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1435. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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