Contra Costa County Biography

HENRY A. FORSBURG

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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                Through the successive stages of orderly progression Henry A. 
Forsburg has advanced to his present position of responsibility and importance 
as general superintendent of the San Joaquin Valley trunk pipe-lines of the 
Standard Oil Company of California, with offices at San Pablo. He was born in 
Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania, May 2, 1874. He acquired his education in the 
public schools. At an early age he became identified with the Southern Pipe-Line 
Company of eastern Pennsylvania as pipe-line inspector. He later was made 
foreman of the pumping station . He then removed to New Jersey and had charge of 
loading oil-carrying vessels. In 1903 he removed to Chicago and was made 
assistant superintendent on the Indiana pipe-line. In 1904, he was transferred 
to California as assistant superintendent of pipe-lines, and on March 1, 1905, 
he was promoted to superintendent of the Southern Division. In 1907 Mr. Forsburg 
had charge of building the pipe-lines to the Midway fields from Bakersfield. 
Later, in 1907, he was transferred to the Northern Division, and in 1910 he was 
made general superintendent. He is a member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. Mr. Forsburg was united in marriage May 12, 1896, to Miss 
Cresence Eisenman, of Clarion County, Pennsylvania. To this union there are two 
sons - Joseph A., born November 2, 1897, and Frank E., born December 25, 1900. 
Both sons are in the high school. Mr. Forsburg is popular in both business and 
social circles, and has won an extensive circle of warm friends in and around 
the Bay cities.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
p. 570.