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AUGUST F. SALFIELD
A popular and enterprising building
contractor of Stockton is found in August F. Salfield, who is well equipped by
training and experience for architectural work as well as the erecting of every
kind of building. He was born in San
Francisco, February 4, 1891, being the son of David Salfield, a prominent
architect of the Bay City. The
preliminary education of August F. Salfield was obtained in the public schools
of San Francisco; then he entered the Wilmerding School of Industrial Art,
where he mastered architectural drawing and valuable experience came through
association with his father in the office.
Believing that the way to success in any line is more easily found if
one understands how to do all branches of any particular line, he entered the
employ of P. Anderson and McLarren & Peterson,
for the express purpose of learning the carpenter’s trade; later while
following his trade, he worked on a number of hotels and the Physicians and
Surgeons’ Building in San Francisco.
Seven years ago Mr. Salfield located
in Stockton, where he formed a partnership with H. W. Johnson, the firm name
being Johnson & Salfield, and their business was contracting and building,
specializing in the building of bungalows.
In 1918 Mr. Salfield entered the building and contracting field alone
and he has erected bungalows in El Dorado Heights and Yosemite Terrace. On the 140-acre subdivision of El Dorado
Heights, he has erected some fifty bungalows, all being of his own artistic
designing. In January, 1923, he took his
brother Carl in as a partner and they built a planing mill where they do all
kinds of millwork for the construction of their buildings.
The marriage of Mr. Salfield united
him with Miss Ettienne Wiedemann, a native of Seattle, Washington, and they
have one son, Theodore Salfield. Besides
being a member of the Stockton Builders’ Exchange, Mr. Salfield is an active
member of the San Joaquin Lodge No. 19, F. & A. M., Stockton Parlor N. S.
G. W. No. 7, and the Iroquois Tribe of Red Men.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1595. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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