Contra Costa County Biography

ARTHUR C. FARIS

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Among the men who, by reason of their personal integrity, ability, and business 
enterprise, have come to be regarded as representative citizens is Arthur C. 
Faris, the present city clerk of Richmond. He is a native of Aurora, Nebraska to 
southern Oregon in 1888. His father died when Arthur C. was a lad of thirteen 
years of age. His father was numbered among the highly esteemed men of Medford, 
Oregon, and held the office of city recorder for some years. The subject of this 
sketch at an early age entered the grocery store of John C. Nourse as clerk. 
Later he went with the Hughes Laundry, of Fresno, and there he became connected 
with the Fresno fire department. He removed to Richmond in August, 1901, and was 
employed by the Santa Fe Railroad as brakeman. He was afterward promoted to 
freight conductor, and in 1908 again promoted to passenger conductor. In October 
he was injured by a piece of steel entering his eye, which impaired his sight. 
He was appointed city clerk on April 1, 1913, which position he has since held. 
Politically, Mr. Faris is a Republican. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the 
B. P. O. E. and the Moose lodge of Richmond. He was united in marriage to Miss 
Bessie Carpenter, formerly a teacher in the Fresno High School, September 26, 
1906. To this union was born one daughter, Elizabeth Maradean, December 22, 
1913. Mr. and Mrs. Faris manifest at all times a public-spirited devotion to the 
general good of Richmond.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California", Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
pp. 478-479.