Tulare County Biographies

ARCHIBALD J. ROBERTSON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        For the last quarter of a century Archibald J. Robertson has been 
intimately associated with the electrical interests of southern California. He 
was born at Cleveland, Georgia, September 19, 1876, and is a son of Rev. V. L. 
Robertson and his wife, whose maiden name was Huldah Logan. The mother is 
deceased, but the father is living retired, after many years in the active 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, part of which time was spent in 
California.
        Archibald J. Robertson received his elementary education in the public 
schools of his native state. He then attended the Georgia School of Technology 
at Atlanta and upon leaving that institution he was for one year in the employ 
of the Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills. On May 16, 1899, he arrived in California and 
soon afterward entered the employ of the Mount Whitney Power Company as operator 
of one of their hydroelectric stations. After a year in this capacity he was 
made superintendent of power house No. 1, where he remained for two years. He 
was then made superintendent of the eastern division and held that position 
until the Mount Whitney Power Company was merged with the Pacific Light and 
Power Corporation.
        Under the new management Mr. Robertson was continued in his position 
until the Pacific Light and Power interests were taken over by the Southern 
California Edison Company. For some time after this change was made he occupied 
the position of assistant superintendent of generation and transmission of the 
northern division. Then the northern and southern divisions were consolidated 
and the San Joaquin Hydro Division formed. Mr. Robertson was made superintendent 
of this division�a position he still holds.
Mr. Robertson is a prominent figure in Masonic circles as a Knight Templar and a 
Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Visalia Lodge, Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks. He married Miss H. May Wilson, of Reno, Nevada, a 
graduate of the University of Nevada. They have two children : Comer A. and 
Jamie L.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 460