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THADDEUS E. WILLIAMSON
Among the younger generation of
useful and progressive citizens of Stockton, Thaddeus E. Williamson figures
prominently in the building up of the city as a building contractor. He is a native son of Stockton, having been
born March 19, 1894, and he began his education in the Lafayette grammar
school, then entered the Stockton high school,
graduating with the class of 1912.
Finishing his schooling he learned the cabinetmaker’s trade and entered
the employ of Totten & Brandt’s Planing Mill; later he worked in the same capacity for the
Union Planing Mill. He then entered the
employ of L. G. Bergen & Sons, large contractors of San Francisco, and here
it was that he gained valuable practical experience in the building line. While in the employ of this company he worked
on the Ventura School for Girls, the Norwalk State Hospital, the machinery
building at the Mare Island Navy Yard and other state buildings. Five years ago he entered the building
contracting business for himself and from the beginning specialized in fine
residences and apartment houses. He is
his own architect and he has built up a reputation for designing and erecting
artistic and attractive residences, and apartment houses, and most of his work
comes without solicitation. Since
entering business for himself he has erected within five years over sixty fine
residences, bungalows and apartment houses.
In Stockton he has planned and erected the Camicia
flats, C. E. Curnow residence, the apartment house for Arthur Branch, the
Claude Gill, T. J. Gill, E. M. Journey, the Anthony, Nick Pulich,
L. Hatheway, Scott, and Prouse
residences; flat for Fred Salbach, residences for L.
J. Hulbert, A. McCloud, Joe Chelly, Walter Joy,
George Green, and John Steel, besides two residences for his mother. At Sonora he erected two residences for
Edward Burden, the Melvin Howland residence in Lodi and the Edgar Lynch
residence in Linden. He has recently
completed the George Clark residence, Taylor Milk Company’s Building on North
Union Street, a double house for Donald Dickey; residences for Miss A. Salbach, William Wollaston and a great many others. Mr. Williamson has also done some artistic
work in remodeling store fronts and interior finish, among them the Jones Grill
on East Weber Avenue and the Ruddick Hat Store on Main Street.
The marriage of Mr. Williamson in
1914 united him with Jewel Hicks, a native of Missouri, and they are the
parents of three children, James E., Nadine B. and Eugene F. Fraternally Mr. Williamson is a member of
Charity Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F., the Foresters, and Stockton Parlor No. 7, N.
S. G. W.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1140. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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