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GLEN E. SAXTON
Among the more recent acquisitions
to the business circles of Tracy is Glen E. Saxton, the proprietor of the G. E.
Saxton Plumbing Shop, and has already proven himself a valuable asset to the
progress and building up of San Joaquin County.
A native of Michigan, he was born at Albion, Calhoun County, on June 30,
1888. His father, Justus Saxton, was a
native of Bristol, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to
Michigan in the early ‘60s, where he was employed as a painter.
Glen E. Saxton attended the public
schools of Michigan, and as a boy sold newspapers at Battle Creek to earn his
own way. In 1904 he left home to work in
a large implement shop and spent two years there learning the machinist’s
trade; later he removed to Roseburg, Oregon, and for a number of years his
occupations were diversified, working in the hemp rope mills, the pine box
factories and Sutter’s paper box factory; later upon removing to Portland,
Oregon, he took up the plumber’s trade, working as an apprentice, and in 1908
he removed to White Salmon, Washington, and established his first plumbing
store with repair shop in connection and built up a fine trade, which he
continued for a year and a half when he disposed of it to good advantage. Learning of a good opening in Portland he
returned there and entered into partnership with Mr. Lonpaugh
in the conduct of an extensive pumping machinery business, which occupied him
for one year. He then became much
interested in the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and upon
hearing that a plant was to be opened at Thompson, Nevada, he made application
for the position of superintendent and foreman in the scientific mining and
leaching of copper; five years were spent in that occupation and Mr. Saxton was
released with reluctance as the general foreman of this concern.
The marriage of Mr. Saxton united
him with Miss Bonnie Moquist, a daughter of A. E. Moquist, of Los Banos,
California. They are the parents of one
child, Ellis Edward. In December, 1920,
Mr. Saxton opened his shop in Tracy and the volume of business has so increased
that he has sought larger quarters twice, his present location being at 30 West
Eighth Street. He owns a comfortable
residence in Tracy and has entered into the industrial life of the community
with true California spirit, and has already taken a most active interest in
the progress and development of the west side country. In politics he is a Republican, and
fraternally is a Mason and has been a member of the Odd Fellow lodge for
fourteen years.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
835-836. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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