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WILLIAM INGLIS
WILLIAM INGLIS.--Among those
to whom Stockton’s reputation for solidity and stability is largely due, is the
gentleman whose name heads this brief sketch. Mr. Inglis, who is a native of
Scotland, came to California in 1851, arriving in San Francisco on the 26th
of September, and at Stockton on the 10th of the following month. He
established the New York Restaurant on Levee street, and kept it until 1859,
when he became proprietor of the State Bakery, succeeding its founders--John
Gross and Joseph Levique. It has been a continual success under his management.
In 1868 he became interested in the
Stockton Savings and Loan Society, that great financial institution noted at
length elsewhere in this volume, and has been a director ever since. In
October, 1888, he was elected president of the Stockton Combined Harvester and
Agricultural Works Company, and now holds that position. A special article is
devoted to that institution elsewhere.
Mr. Inglis has never put forward any
claims to political preference, but notwithstanding this fact has been four
times elected to a seat in the Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County, and
three times to the city council of Stockton.
He is an active business man, yet safe and
conservative in his methods, and is one of the solid, substantial men of the
county.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 610. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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