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REXFORD B. RICHMOND
A progressive young man of superior
business qualifications who has been identified with the automobile industry
for the past seven years, Rexford B. Richmond has made for himself a distinct
place in Stockton’s business circles.
Quick to discriminate and swift to grasp the opportunity for success,
his selection of San Joaquin County as the scene of his operations in the
automobile field has been well rewarded.
He was born in Malvern, Iowa, on May
23, 1885. His father being a harnessmaker he learned the trade with him. In 1907 the family removed to Colorado and
father and son took up a homestead near Sterling, and our subject remained
there four years and was engaged in farming and at the same time worked at his
trade as a harnessmaker. In the year of 1911 he came to California and
located in Merced and was employed in the harness department of the Barcroft Hardware Company.
When this company opened a branch store at Chowchilla, Mr. Richmond was
sent there in charge of the new store.
In 1913 he removed to Stockton and two years later established his own business, that of making automobile tops. He started in a small way at 28 South
American Avenue with a capital of fifteen dollars. As his business grew and expanded he was
obliged to seek larger and better quarts and removed to 228 East Miner Avenue,
where he manufactures auto tops de luxe, with
stationary top and disappearing curtains.
Mr. Richmond has the exclusive contract for San Joaquin County for the
Gillig sliding curtains, in celluloid and glass. The Richmond perfected auto top is made of
extra superior materials, has overhead light, beveled glass tonneau
windshields, pockets for flowers, dust brushes, etc., and is built to give long
service without becoming loose in the frame, the heavy ash sills being
reinforced with metal braces. Mr.
Richmond is also distributor for the Hartford tonneau
windshield; he also manufactures seat covers and conducts a modern upholstery
department.
The marriage of Mr. Richmond united
him with Miss Ada Patmon, a
native of Holyoke, Colorado, and they are the parents of four children: Ruth, Charles, Evelyn and Glenn; the two
youngest children are natives of California.
Fraternally Mr. Richmond is identified with Stockton Lodge 218, B. P. O.
E., and the Modern Woodmen of America.
He is a wide-awake booster and is a worker for good roads and harbor
improvements.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
940-943. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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