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LUTHER J. DUBOIS
Well and popularly known in the
business circles of Stockton is the senior partner in the Parisian Dyeing and
Cleaning Works of 111 East Weber Avenue, Stockton. He has practically grown up in the business,
his father’s family before him conducting the same kind of a business in
France. Ten years ago he located in
Stockton and became an employee of the Parisian Dyeing and Cleaning Works and
is now sole owner of the establishment.
During the ten years that he has been in business in Stockton he has
been a public-spirited citizen, working for the welfare of his community. He was born in Belgium, February 4, 1889, and
was a babe in arms when his parents came to America and they located in New
Jersey, where he grew up and where he received his education. When a young man he removed to Independence,
Kansas, where he engaged in the dry cleaning business and in order to give
better service to his patrons obtained data of his father’s family in France,
who were engaged in the same line of work, on the effective French system of
cleaning and dyeing. On arriving in
Stockton ten years ago he found work with the Parisian Dry Cleaners, which was
established about twelve years ago by Glen Berup and
B. B. Berup and J. D. Ellsworth with a capital of
$300 and their first location was in a small building on North California
Street with a downtown office at the present location. Eight years ago Mr. Dubois and Mr. Ellsworth
purchased the interests of the Berup brothers and
three years ago Mr. Dubois became sole owner of the concern and within that
time the business has doubled in volume.
Recently a modern cleaning and dyeing plant has been constructed on
Lower Sacramento Road and Adams Street, fully equipped with the most modern
machinery at a cost of $35,000, and it is among the most modern plants on the
Pacific Coast. Mr. Dubois has his brother,
William M., associated with him in the business as an equal partner. They are members of the National Association
of Dyers and Cleaners.
The marriage of Mr. Dubois united
him with Miss Aila S. Bowles, born in Livermore,
California; they have two sons, William and Robert, and the family
reside in a beautiful residence in Tuxedo Park. Mr. Dubois belongs to the Morning Star Blue
Lodge of Masons, the Eastern Star, the Ben Ali Shrine in Sacramento, the Shrine
Patrol in Stockton and the Stockton Lions Club.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
733-734. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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