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HERBERT M. SCHAUR
Among the more important building
supply organizations of the West Side section of San Joaquin County is the
Tracy Lumber Company, of which Herbert M. Schaur is the general manager; he is
also a stockholder in the parent company, known as the Santa Fe Lumber Company
with headquarters in San Francisco, owners of the following branches: Tracy Lumber Company at Tracy, Brentwood
Lumber Company, at Brentwood, California, Patterson Lumber Company, at
Patterson, California, and the Newman Lumber Company, located at Newman,
Stanislaus County, California. A native
of Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Schaur was born on August 26, 1883, a son of
Charles E. and Florence E. (Arminger) Schaur. His paternal
ancestors were of Scotch origin. In
1895, his father passed away and the responsibility of the support of the
family rested on the shoulders of our subject, then a lad of about twelve
years. His first job was as stock clerk
for a large dry goods house and within two years he was advanced to the
position of clerk in the office; however, the opportunity came to enter an
attorney’s office with a chance to study law and he also availed himself of a
course in a night school; he then obtained a position as a traveling salesman
for a wholesale provision house of Baltimore, covering the territory of
Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, continuing until 1905,
with the exception of two years that were spent in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Removing to California, he
located in Los Angeles, where he remained three years. Then he went into the large lumber camps of
Mendocino County; gradually working his way up from the bottom he became the
superintendent of two mills which he conducted with the utmost success. Some nine years ago he became associated with
the Santa Fe Lumber Company and in 1917 was sent to Tracy to assume the general
oversight of their branch yard.
The Tracy Lumber Company has aided
in the growth and upbuilding of Tracy and other towns nearby, and the merchants
and business men have found its management ever ready to cooperate with them in
achieving results; its officials and employees have all been boosters in aid of
irrigation movements, which have shown so forcibly how valuable water is in
crop production, and they are strong for the upbuilding of this section of
central California. They are
distributors for the famed Simplex silo and the Papec
ensilage cutter.
The marriage of Mr. Schaur occurred
on June 4, 1907, and united him with Miss Carrie N. Beattie, a daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. W. G. Beattie of Tracy, prominent in professional and social
circles. They are the parents of two
children, Margaret N. and Herbert M., Jr.
Mr. Schaur is past president of the Chamber of Commerce and is now a
director and has accomplished much as a member of the executive committee. In politics he is a Republican and
fraternally is a Mason and Odd Fellow, and past patron of the Eastern Star
Lodge of Tracy. He is the owner of
desirable real estate in the Rosedale subdivision of Tracy.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1255. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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