Butte County Biographies

E. A. McINTOSH

Submitted by Craig Hahn

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   Progress has been manifested in no greater degree in any line of business 
than in hotel management and into this field E. A. McIntosh has directed his 
labors, being manager of the Hotel Oaks at Chico, one of the finest hostelries 
in the Sacramento Valley. A native of Michigan, he was born in Cheboygan county, 
July 10, 1879, and is a son of John C. and Elizabeth McIntosh. The father 
engaged in the lumber business in Michigan for a number of years and afterward 
followed the same line Washington, where his last days were spent. He is 
survived by the mother, who now makes her home in Los Angeles, California.
     E. A. McIntosh was quite a young man at the time of the removal of the 
family to the state of Washington, where he pursued a public school education, 
and afterward started out in the business world as a bell boy in the Tacoma 
Hotel. For three years he was thus employed in Tacoma and then went to Seattle. 
The year 1927 witnessed his arrival in California, and deciding to locate in 
Chico, he here took over the management of the Hotel Oaks, which was formerly 
owned by a stock company, composed largely of local people. Mr. McIntosh 
purchased the property, the building being practically new. It contains one 
hundred rooms, all outside rooms, and the rates range from a dollar and a half 
up. There is a spacious lobby with easy chairs and comfortable lounges and he 
caters to both tourist and commercial trades from Mexico to British Columbia. 
The hotel is thoroughly modern, is well located on Second street, has an 
attractive patio and lawns and affords to its guests every possible convenience. 
     Mr. McIntosh was united in marriage to Miss Clara Harrison Taylor, a 
daughter of A. B. and Margaret Taylor. Her father was an attorney and claim 
agent of Tacoma for eight years and there passed away. Her mother is now a 
resident of Santa Barbara. Mr. And Mrs. McIntosh have a son, John Albert. 
     Politically Mr. McIntosh is a republican and takes an active interest in 
local politics but is not an office seeker. He finds his favorite sports in 
golf, fishing, hunting and boxing. Fraternally he is a Mason with membership in 
the lodge and Scottish Rite bodies in Tacoma and Afifi Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine of that city. He also belongs to the Tacoma lodge of Elks. He is genial, 
cordial and courteous, qualities which go to make him a successful hotel man, 
and the Oaks is today popular with the traveling public. 
 
Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 
2 pgs. 26-27. The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.