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  • Collection: Davis' Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Southwest - Fresno Area Biographical Sketches

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A biographical sketch and photo of W. Oral Watters.
Mr. Watters, an attorney, member of Barnard & Watters firm.
He married Fern Vaughn in 1912.

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A biographical sketch and photo of E. G. Webb.
Mr. Webb was president of the San Joaquin Rock and Gravel Company. His father J.W. Webb was a member of the state legislature.
He incorporated San Joaquin Rock and Gravel Company in April 1910 with…

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A biographical sketch and photo of Marvin Weger. Mr. Weger was the owner of The Weger Auto Lamp Repair Shop in Fresno, CA. One of the first men outside of San Francisco or Los Angeles to weld aluminum.
He was married to Ethel Gulley of Tulare, CA.…

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A biographical sketch of William Arthur Welborn. Mr. Welborn was the proprietor of the "The Brick Shop" in Clovis, CA, a blacksmith shop.
He was married to Loretta M. McCandess of Monterey, CA. They had two children, Gladys and Arthur.

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A biographical sketch and photo of Truman Calvin White. Mr. White was a prominent raisin grower in Fresno County. He was a president of Old Producer's Raisin Packing Company and a director of of the California Raisin Growers' Association.
He was…

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A biographical sketch and photo of W. A. White.
Mr. White was president of the White Packing Company and proprietor of the New England Market.

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A biographical sketch of C. H. Williams. Mr. Williams was the proprietor of a blacksmith and carriage shop in Fowler. He was also a City Trustee for Fowler. He was married twice. First to Rosa D. Schwartz, then to Emma K. Saunders.

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A biographical sketch and photo of Edward Albert Williams. Mr. Williams, an attorney practiced in Fresno from 1893. He was instrumental in helping the Japanese land holders form corporations to protect their land from the the anti-Japanese…

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A biographical sketch and photo of G. M. Williams. George Williams was a successful Job Printer in Fresno.

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A biographical sketch of W. C. Williams.
Mr. Williams was the Fresno City Bacteriologist and ran a one of a kind laboratory for the San Joaquin Valley. He was married to Anna C. Carpenter.
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