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THEODORE SAMMIS WALKER
Theodore Sammis Walker, vice president and manager of Red River Lumber Company, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 25, 1901. The son of Fletcher Loren and Eveline Van Winkle (Sammis) Walker.
Mr. Walker was resident manager of the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, California (established in 1884), from 1924 to 1933 and was vice president and manager of the Lumber Division of same from 1933 until the liquidation of the company in 1945. He is president of Shasta Forests Company; and vice president and director of Chatham-Walker, Inc.
During the Second World War, 1943 to 1944, Mr. Walker served as lieutenant with the United States Navy.
Mr. Walker is a Republican; belongs to the Methodist Church; and is a member of the Florida Yacht Club of Jacksonville, Florida, and the Menlo Circus Club, Menlo Park, California.
Mr. Walker’s second marriage was to Sylvia S. Young on October 7, 1931. He has two children: Richard Philip and Ramona Jean.
Home: 168 Eleanor Drive, Woodside California.
Office: 626 Woodside Road, Redwood City, California.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 339, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Joyce Rugeroni.
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