Tulare County Biographies

ARTHUR STEINBERG

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Arthur Steinberg, manager of the popular Pioneer Hotel in Porterville 
and widely known in hotel circles and among the traveling public throughout this 
section of the state, is a native son of California and has been a resident of 
this state all his life. Mr. Steinberg, who is better known among his friends as 
"Art" Steinberg, was born in the city of San Francisco, May 1, 1881, and is a 
son of John and Hannah (Anderson) Steinberg, both of whom were born in the 
kingdom of Sweden. John Steinberg was a trained and skilled cabinetmaker who 
became a resident of San Francisco in the '70s and who was long actively engaged 
in working at his trade in that city.
        Reared in San Francisco, Arthur Steinberg acquired his education in the 
schools of that city, attending variously the Lincoln, the Columbia and the 
Hearst schools, and as a young man engaged in clerical work in various 
commercial establishments about town. In 1912 he became employed as clerk in the 
Cadillac Hotel in San Francisco, at that time conducted by Robert Kendall, 
present proprietor of the Pioneer Hotel in Porterville, and in 1915 became clerk 
in the Terminal Hotel in that city. When in 1916 Mr. Kendall transferred his 
activities in the hotel line to Porterville, Mr. Steinberg accompanied him and 
has ever since been connected with those activities, and is now the manager of 
the Pioneer Hotel, which is recognized as one of the best conducted and most 
popular hotels in this section of California, as is set out elsewhere in this 
work.
        On December 7, 1918, in Porterville, Arthur Steinberg was united in 
marriage to Miss Laketta M. Williamson, who was born in the village of Lakeside, 
in Sheridan county, Nebraska, daughter of Leonard N. and Margarette (Bates) 
Williamson, and who has been a resident of California since 1904. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Steinberg two children have been born : A son, Mark Steinberg, born 
November 3, 1919 ; and a daughter, Norma, born October 17, 1920. Mr. Steinberg 
is a Royal Arch and Knights Templar Mason, affiliated with Porterville Lodge, 
No. 303, F. & A. M.; and also the chapter at Porterville; and with San Francisco 
Commandery, Knights Templars at San Francisco.
 
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., pp. 95-96