San Joaquin County Biographies


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GLEN E. SAXTON.
 
        Among the more recent acquisitions to the business circles of Tracy is 
Glen E. Saxton, the proprietor of the G. E. Saxton Plumbing Shop, and has 
already proven himself a valuable asset to the progress and building up of the 
San Joaquin County. A native of Michigan, he was born at Albion, Calhoun County, 
on June 30, 1888. His father, Justus Saxton, was a native of Bristol, Pa., and 
emigrated to Michigan in the early '60s, where he was employed as a painter.
        Glen E. Saxton attended the public schools of Michigan, and as a boy 
sold newspapers at Battle Creek to earn his own way. In 1904 he left home to 
work in a large implement shop and spent two years there learning the 
machinist's trade; later he removed to Roseburg, Ore., and for a number of years 
his occupations were diversified, working in the hemp rope mills, the pine box 
factories and Sutter's Paper Box factory; later upon removing to Portland, Ore., 
he took up the plumber's trade, working as an apprentice, and in 1908 he removed 
to White Salmon, Wash., and established his first plumbing store with repair 
shop in connection and built up a fine trade, which he continued for a year and 
a half when he disposed of it to good advantage. Learning of a good opening in 
Portland he returned there and entered into partnership with Mr. Lonpaugh in the 
conduct of an extensive pumping machinery business, which occupied him for one 
year. He then became much interested in the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh, Pa., 
and upon hearing that a plant was to be opened at Thompson, Nev., he made 
application for the position of superintendent and foreman in the scientific 
mining and leaching of copper; five years were spent in that occupation and Mr. 
Saxton was released with reluctance as the general foreman of this concern.
        The marriage of Mr. Saxton united him with Miss Bonnie Moquist, a 
daughter of A. E. Moquist, of Los Banos, Cal. They are the parents of one child, 
Ellis Edward. In December, 1920, Mr. Saxton opened his shop in Tracy and the 
volume of business has so increased that he has sought larger quarters twice, 
his present location being at 30 West Eighth Street. He owns a comfortable 
residence in Tracy and has entered into the industrial life of the community 
with true California spirit, and has already taken a most active interest in the 
progress and development of the West Side country. In politics he is a 
Republican, and fraternally is a Mason and has been a member of the Odd Fellow 
lodge for fourteen years.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   835       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.