Alameda County Biographies

GEORGE S. MEREDITH

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        A man of varied interests, forceful personality and effective ability, 
George S. Meredith is numbered today among the most able financiers and 
public-spirited citizens of Oakland, where he is cashier of the Farmers & 
Merchants Savings Bank and active in various movements and projects designed to 
promote the permanent interests of the community. Through successive stages of 
progress and advancement he has risen steadily in his chosen field of labor and 
occupies today a position of distinctive prominence in banking circles. He is a 
director of the bank as well as cashier and secretary; has been secretary of the 
Oakland Clearing House Association ever since its organization; and is a member 
of the executive council of the California Bankers' Association.
        Mr. Meredith was born in Sacramento, California, December 16, 1865, and 
is a son of one of the early pioneers of Sierra county, from which he served as 
a member of the state legislature in 1865. He later moved into Oakland. In the 
public schools of the latter city George S. Meredith acquired his education and 
after laying aside his text books turned his attention to the newspaper business 
in St. Helena, Napa county, where he remained for five years. At the end of that 
time, however, he returned to Oakland and took a position in a local bank. He 
entered the employ of the Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank in 1902, beginning a 
career which has already brought him prominence and distinction. Soon after he 
became connected with this institution he was made its cashier, a position which 
he now occupies and the duties of which he discharges in an able and 
conscientious manner. He is recognized as a far-sighted and resourceful 
financier of sound judgment and discriminating ability and since entering the 
Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank has been a helpful factor in its success.
        Mr. Meredith is an authority on real-estate values and his prominence in 
this line is recognized throughout the county. He serves on the board of 
appraisers for schoolhouse sites in Oakland and has various other public and 
semi-public connections, his interest and enthusiasm having rapidly carried him 
forward into important relations with general community life. He was at one time 
chairman of the republican city central committee, is secretary and treasurer of 
the Industrial Home for the Adult Blind, has been secretary of the Oakland 
Clearing House Association since its formation in 1906 and is a director and 
vice president of the California Mutual Investment Association.
        Mr. Meredith married Miss Mary Noyes, a native of San Francisco, who is 
well known in social circles of Oakland. He belongs to the Nile Club and is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity and the native Sons of the Golden West. He is 
at this time potentate of Aahmes Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is widely and 
favorably known in business circles of Oakland, where his ability, industry and 
integrity have gained him the respect and esteem of all with whom he comes in 
contact.
 
Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 
1914, p. 439