Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


GEORGE LAMERS. � It isn't what a man has, but what he does with 
what he has that determines his standing in a community. A man may be 
possessed of the brightest of minds, or an abundance of wealth, but if he 
does not develop his brain, or if he uses his money for his own selfish ends, 
he has reflected no credit upon himself nor upon the community. A man 
with less of either brain or money, rightly expended, will reflect a greater 
luster. With what respect do we look upon the man who has come to the 
top knowing every step of the ladder. 

Such a man is George Lamers, who was born at Nykobing, Jylland, Den- 
mark, September 21, 1882. His father, Edward Lamers. was a native of Den- 
mark, a carpenter by trade, who died when the son was only four years of age. 

His mother, Elise Marie (Nielsen) Lamers, since her husband's death has 
married again and lives on the old home place in Denmark. Her name now 
is Andersen. 

George Lamers attended school in his native land, and remained there 
until he was twenty years old. In 1902 he came to America, locating in 
Chicago where he worked at the carpenter trade for two years, and then 
came to Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, Cal., and engaged in railroad work. 
Soon becoming bridge carpenter for the Southern Pacific, he was later 
transferred to the car repair shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Duns- 
muir, Cal., and stayed there four years. In 1909 he resigned from his work 
at Dunsmuir and came to Fresno, taking employment with the Santa Fe 
Railway Company. He is an able workman and the company has recognized 
his worth by making him foreman of the car repair shops at Fresno, where 
there are thirty-eight men employed. 

He was married in San Jose, to Mary Jensen, a native of Denmark. They 
live in one of the companies' houses at Calwa, a suburb of Fresno, are 
members of the Danish Lutheran Church at Fresno, and are highly respected 
by all who know them. And so, perhaps never thinking of doing it, he is 
illustrating the truth of what a poet has said, "Honor and fame from no con- 
dition rise, act well your part � there all the glory lies."