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Fred was a son of Albion Parris Swanton & Emily Jane Parshley.
He was married on 25 Dec 1884 to Miss Stanley Pope Hall.
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Of the energetic young men of Santa Cruz none have more push and get up and get there about them than Fred W. Swanton. Although only twenty-nine years of age, he has already been identified with more enterprises, both of a private and public character, than the majority of people who have reached their full span of years.
He was born April 11, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York. He came to California in 1866 with his mother via the Isthmus, his father having preceded them here and located at Pescadero. He came to Santa Cruz in 1867, and attended the public schools in this place until he was eighteen years of age. He graduated from Heald's Business College in 1881, and immediately thereafter accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Maderia Flume and Trading Company at Fresno, and later worked in the same capacity for the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company. The following year he went East with his mother and returned in 1883. While East he obtained the State right for a telephone patent, with which he traveled over this State, and did a profitable business in every county except Los Angeles, which was the one county he did not visit, as about this time a matrimonial affair interfered with his labors in this line. He was married, December 25, 1884, to Miss Stanley Hall, daughter of R. H. Hall, of Santa Cruz. Not desiring to continue traveling longer, he entered into business with his father, and in 1883 they built a three-story hotel on Pacific Avenue opposite the Pacific Ocean House, which they conducted successfully for three years. During this time he was also the successful manager of the opera house at Santa Cruz. In the afternoon of Decoration day of June, 1888, the hotel and their adjoining stable was burned. Shortly afterward they sold the lot to James G. Fair for $16,000 ($4,000 insurance money) and bought property on Pacific Avenue, continuing in the livery business at the Bonner Stables. These stables were subsequently sold for $9,200.
In the latter part of 1888 he dissolved partnership with his father and entered into the drug business, establishing the Palace of Pharmacy, one of the most elegant drug stores in this city. Fifteen months afterwards he sold out to the present owners, and immediately began to agitate a project for incandescent lights for Santa Cruz. In October, 1889, in partnership with Dr. H. H. Clark, he started in the electric light business, with a three hundred light machine. The history and wonderfully rapid growth and development of this industry is appropriately noticed in another part of this work; suffice it to say here that, within two weeks from the establishment of their plant, they had sent in the order for eighty-five horse power engine and boiler and six hundred and fifty light machine, and not less than two years from the commencement, the firm has grown into a stock company with a Corliss engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, owning their building on Pacific Avenue, forty by one hundred feet, and possessing all the necessary equipments for providing the city of Santa Cruz with four thousand electric lights. The original capital stock was $7,500, and now boasts of $100,000. Mr. Swanton was one of the first to agitate the Santa Cruz Electric Railway project, and is secretary of the Electric Railway Company.
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.- E. S. Harrison, Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
Fred was a son of Albion Parris Swanton & Emily Jane Parshley.
He was married on 25 Dec 1884 to Miss Stanley Pope Hall.
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Of the energetic young men of Santa Cruz none have more push and get up and get there about them than Fred W. Swanton. Although only twenty-nine years of age, he has already been identified with more enterprises, both of a private and public character, than the majority of people who have reached their full span of years.
He was born April 11, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York. He came to California in 1866 with his mother via the Isthmus, his father having preceded them here and located at Pescadero. He came to Santa Cruz in 1867, and attended the public schools in this place until he was eighteen years of age. He graduated from Heald's Business College in 1881, and immediately thereafter accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Maderia Flume and Trading Company at Fresno, and later worked in the same capacity for the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company. The following year he went East with his mother and returned in 1883. While East he obtained the State right for a telephone patent, with which he traveled over this State, and did a profitable business in every county except Los Angeles, which was the one county he did not visit, as about this time a matrimonial affair interfered with his labors in this line. He was married, December 25, 1884, to Miss Stanley Hall, daughter of R. H. Hall, of Santa Cruz. Not desiring to continue traveling longer, he entered into business with his father, and in 1883 they built a three-story hotel on Pacific Avenue opposite the Pacific Ocean House, which they conducted successfully for three years. During this time he was also the successful manager of the opera house at Santa Cruz. In the afternoon of Decoration day of June, 1888, the hotel and their adjoining stable was burned. Shortly afterward they sold the lot to James G. Fair for $16,000 ($4,000 insurance money) and bought property on Pacific Avenue, continuing in the livery business at the Bonner Stables. These stables were subsequently sold for $9,200.
In the latter part of 1888 he dissolved partnership with his father and entered into the drug business, establishing the Palace of Pharmacy, one of the most elegant drug stores in this city. Fifteen months afterwards he sold out to the present owners, and immediately began to agitate a project for incandescent lights for Santa Cruz. In October, 1889, in partnership with Dr. H. H. Clark, he started in the electric light business, with a three hundred light machine. The history and wonderfully rapid growth and development of this industry is appropriately noticed in another part of this work; suffice it to say here that, within two weeks from the establishment of their plant, they had sent in the order for eighty-five horse power engine and boiler and six hundred and fifty light machine, and not less than two years from the commencement, the firm has grown into a stock company with a Corliss engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, owning their building on Pacific Avenue, forty by one hundred feet, and possessing all the necessary equipments for providing the city of Santa Cruz with four thousand electric lights. The original capital stock was $7,500, and now boasts of $100,000. Mr. Swanton was one of the first to agitate the Santa Cruz Electric Railway project, and is secretary of the Electric Railway Company.
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.- E. S. Harrison, Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
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Fred was a son of Albion Parris Swanton & Emily Jane Parshley.
He was married on 25 Dec 1884 to Miss Stanley Pope Hall.
*********************************
Of the energetic young men of Santa Cruz none have more push and get up and get there about them than Fred W. Swanton. Although only twenty-nine years of age, he has already been identified with more enterprises, both of a private and public character, than the majority of people who have reached their full span of years.
He was born April 11, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York. He came to California in 1866 with his mother via the Isthmus, his father having preceded them here and located at Pescadero. He came to Santa Cruz in 1867, and attended the public schools in this place until he was eighteen years of age. He graduated from Heald's Business College in 1881, and immediately thereafter accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Maderia Flume and Trading Company at Fresno, and later worked in the same capacity for the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company. The following year he went East with his mother and returned in 1883. While East he obtained the State right for a telephone patent, with which he traveled over this State, and did a profitable business in every county except Los Angeles, which was the one county he did not visit, as about this time a matrimonial affair interfered with his labors in this line. He was married, December 25, 1884, to Miss Stanley Hall, daughter of R. H. Hall, of Santa Cruz. Not desiring to continue traveling longer, he entered into business with his father, and in 1883 they built a three-story hotel on Pacific Avenue opposite the Pacific Ocean House, which they conducted successfully for three years. During this time he was also the successful manager of the opera house at Santa Cruz. In the afternoon of Decoration day of June, 1888, the hotel and their adjoining stable was burned. Shortly afterward they sold the lot to James G. Fair for $16,000 ($4,000 insurance money) and bought property on Pacific Avenue, continuing in the livery business at the Bonner Stables. These stables were subsequently sold for $9,200.
In the latter part of 1888 he dissolved partnership with his father and entered into the drug business, establishing the Palace of Pharmacy, one of the most elegant drug stores in this city. Fifteen months afterwards he sold out to the present owners, and immediately began to agitate a project for incandescent lights for Santa Cruz. In October, 1889, in partnership with Dr. H. H. Clark, he started in the electric light business, with a three hundred light machine. The history and wonderfully rapid growth and development of this industry is appropriately noticed in another part of this work; suffice it to say here that, within two weeks from the establishment of their plant, they had sent in the order for eighty-five horse power engine and boiler and six hundred and fifty light machine, and not less than two years from the commencement, the firm has grown into a stock company with a Corliss engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, owning their building on Pacific Avenue, forty by one hundred feet, and possessing all the necessary equipments for providing the city of Santa Cruz with four thousand electric lights. The original capital stock was $7,500, and now boasts of $100,000. Mr. Swanton was one of the first to agitate the Santa Cruz Electric Railway project, and is secretary of the Electric Railway Company.
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.- E. S. Harrison, Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
Fred was a son of Albion Parris Swanton & Emily Jane Parshley.
He was married on 25 Dec 1884 to Miss Stanley Pope Hall.
*********************************
Of the energetic young men of Santa Cruz none have more push and get up and get there about them than Fred W. Swanton. Although only twenty-nine years of age, he has already been identified with more enterprises, both of a private and public character, than the majority of people who have reached their full span of years.
He was born April 11, 1862, in Brooklyn, New York. He came to California in 1866 with his mother via the Isthmus, his father having preceded them here and located at Pescadero. He came to Santa Cruz in 1867, and attended the public schools in this place until he was eighteen years of age. He graduated from Heald's Business College in 1881, and immediately thereafter accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Maderia Flume and Trading Company at Fresno, and later worked in the same capacity for the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company. The following year he went East with his mother and returned in 1883. While East he obtained the State right for a telephone patent, with which he traveled over this State, and did a profitable business in every county except Los Angeles, which was the one county he did not visit, as about this time a matrimonial affair interfered with his labors in this line. He was married, December 25, 1884, to Miss Stanley Hall, daughter of R. H. Hall, of Santa Cruz. Not desiring to continue traveling longer, he entered into business with his father, and in 1883 they built a three-story hotel on Pacific Avenue opposite the Pacific Ocean House, which they conducted successfully for three years. During this time he was also the successful manager of the opera house at Santa Cruz. In the afternoon of Decoration day of June, 1888, the hotel and their adjoining stable was burned. Shortly afterward they sold the lot to James G. Fair for $16,000 ($4,000 insurance money) and bought property on Pacific Avenue, continuing in the livery business at the Bonner Stables. These stables were subsequently sold for $9,200.
In the latter part of 1888 he dissolved partnership with his father and entered into the drug business, establishing the Palace of Pharmacy, one of the most elegant drug stores in this city. Fifteen months afterwards he sold out to the present owners, and immediately began to agitate a project for incandescent lights for Santa Cruz. In October, 1889, in partnership with Dr. H. H. Clark, he started in the electric light business, with a three hundred light machine. The history and wonderfully rapid growth and development of this industry is appropriately noticed in another part of this work; suffice it to say here that, within two weeks from the establishment of their plant, they had sent in the order for eighty-five horse power engine and boiler and six hundred and fifty light machine, and not less than two years from the commencement, the firm has grown into a stock company with a Corliss engine of two hundred and fifty horse power, owning their building on Pacific Avenue, forty by one hundred feet, and possessing all the necessary equipments for providing the city of Santa Cruz with four thousand electric lights. The original capital stock was $7,500, and now boasts of $100,000. Mr. Swanton was one of the first to agitate the Santa Cruz Electric Railway project, and is secretary of the Electric Railway Company.
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.- E. S. Harrison, Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.
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