Alameda County Biographies

William Delacour

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        William Delacour is well known in Oakland, where he has been 
successfully engaged in business since April, 1906, manufacturing a general line 
of art glass. His birth occurred in Youghal, in the south of Ireland, on the 
14th of November, 1883, his parents being Timothy and Katharine Delacour. He 
attended the public schools until fourteen years of age, when he began service 
as an apprentice with a stained-glass firm, with whom he remained until he had 
attained his majority.     When twenty-one years of age he made his way to San 
Francisco, California, and was there engaged as stained-glass designer with the 
Sierra Glass Company until April, 1906. At that time he came to Oakland and 
embarked in business on his own account in association with Mr. Trobock, the 
firm of Trobock & Delacour continuing until 1909, when our subject purchased his 
partner's interest and has since conducted the enterprise alone. He manufactures 
a general line of art glass and has built up a business of extensive and 
profitable proportions.
        In Oakland Mr. Delacour was united in marriage to Miss Marie C. Perkins, 
by whom he has one child, Norbert. He is a member of the Fraternal Order of 
Eagles. Attracted by the opportunities of the new world and especially those of 
the "golden west," he here started upon his business career and has already won 
an enviable reputation as one of the prosperous, enterprising and respected 
citizens of Oakland.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 
1914, p. 88