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SAMUEL G. MIX
The efficient superintendent and
part owner of the Engineering & Foundry Company of Stockton, Samuel G. Mix
is one of the city’s more progressive and capable business men. His advancement in the industrial world has
been through his own efforts, and today he is enjoying a richly merited
success, while his future is assured. He
was born at La Porte, Indiana, on March 20, 1873 and was reared and educated in
his native city. His vacation periods
were spent in a local foundry making cores and when he was sixteen years old he
learned the trade of moulder in the foundry of M. Rumley
Company of La Porte. His ability was
soon recognized and as he became proficient he was made general foreman of the
plant. For many years he followed his
trade in Indiana. In 1911 he came to
Stockton to take charge of the foundry department of the Holt Manufacturing Company
where he remained until 1915 when the Engineering & Foundry Company was
organized with Morris Davidson president, and our subject as superintendent,
and he is also a stockholder in the company.
Mr. Mix brought to that company expert knowledge of all kinds of foundry
work and they deal in semi-steel and gray iron castings and their plant is
equipped with the most modern and approved machinery; they also manufacture gas
engine equipment. Mr. Mix was one of the
first on the Pacific Coast to introduce scientific metal mixing, by which
process it can be determined in advance what metals are to be used to make both
hard and soft iron. Before this method
was known it was entirely guesswork whether the iron produced would be hard or
soft. Like so many others who have won
prominence in their particular line of work, Mr. Mix started with all his
capital in brains and energy, not in money, and has progressed by
self-achievement and is now one of the best informed men in his line in Central
California.
The marriage of Mr. Mix united him
with Miss Bertha Kelling, a native of La Porte,
Indiana. In fraternal circles he is a
member of the Elks of Stockton.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1610. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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