San Mateo County
Biographies
EARL B.
WILSON
Earl B.
Wilson was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, on May 30, 1891; son of John
Thomas and Pleasantine (Cushman) Wilson.
Mr. Wilson was a surveyor with the
General Land Office, Southwestern United States and Alaska, from 1910 to 1915.
He entered the sugar business in association with Ham & Seymour, New York
City, in 1920; vice president of National Sugar Refining Company from 1940 to
1943; president and director of California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation,
Ltd. 1946-1951; chairman, Board of Directors, Sterling Sugars, Inc., Franklin,
Louisiana; member, Board of Directors, Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co.,
San Francisco.
During World War I Mr. Wilson served
with the United States Army, 1916 to 1919, resigning in 1919 as major of
cavalry. In 1942 he was principal industrialist specialist with the War
Production Board and also consultant to Board of Economic Warfare. Director of
Sugar Division of Commodity Credit Corporation, United States Department of Agriculture,
1943 to 1945, and director of Sugar Branch, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
1945 to 1946.
Member of Society of Mayflower
Descendants; Sons of the Revolution; American Legion; Congregational Church;
Masonic Order; India House Club and Explorers Club, both of New York City;
Pacific-Union Club, San Francisco, Burlingame Country, Burlingame, California.
Mr. Wilson married Margaret Pew on
September 14, 1920, and has three children: Pleasantine
Cushman (Mrs. Robert G. Drake), Earl Boden and
Margaret Pew.
Home: 1855 Willow Road, Burlingame,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 492, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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