Clarence S. CRARY
Clarence
S. CRARY. One of the progressive
cities of the San Francisco Bay district is Burlingame, San Mateo County, and
one of the progressive and representative business men of this city is Clarence
S. CRARY, who is here president of the
Bank of Burlingame.
Mr.
CRARY was born in the State of Iowa,
March 30, 1879, and is a son of M. S.
and Martha (LEONARD) CRARY, the other surviving children of the family being
Charles J., vice president of Mercantile Trust Company in the City of San Francisco, and F.W. and A.R. still
residents of Iowa. The early education
of Mr. CRARY was gained in the public schools of his native state, which was
supplemented by a course at Grinnell College, Iowa, and after coming to California he entered Leland STANDFORD
Jr., University, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class
of 1903 and with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Soon after his graduation he initiated his connection with the
banking business, and in 1906 he became associated with the bank of which he is
now the president. Prior to this he
had held the position of cashier of the
Mayfield Bank and Trust Company, later in the Merchants National bank of San Francisco and still later had been for a time identified with banking
business in the oil fields of the Bakersfield district. Mr. CRARY gave ten years of effective
service as a cashier of the Bank of Burlingame, and at the annual January
meeting of the Board of Directors of this institution in the year 1923 he was
elected its president, a preferment which he had worthily won. Mr. CRARY takes deep interest in all things
tending to advance the general prosperity of his home city and county, is a
republican in politics and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks. In 1924, he served as
secretary of the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce. Mr. CRARY has always taken an active interest in community
affairs, and during the war had charge of the Liberty, Loan drives, and was one
of the men who succeeded in more than doubling the quota assigned to this
district. He is one of the most popular
men in the community.
The
year 1912 recorded the marriage of Mr. CRARY and Edith SLIFER, a daughter of
Lieut-Col Hiram J. SLIFER, who died in France as a member of the American
Expeditionary Forces, having been connected with the American Railway
Engineers. He was formerly general
manager of the Chicago and Great Western Railroad Company, and also at one time
was superintendent of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company and was associated
with Col. George GOETHALS in the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the twenty-nine upon whom
General PERSHING conferred the Distinguished Service Medal. SLIFER Post of the American Legion of Chicago
is named in his honor. Mrs. CRARY was
born in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they have four children;
Leonard, Mary, Margaret and Martha.