Ventura County Biographies

Frederick Stock

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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Frederick Stock. - The able and efficient manager of the works of the Los 
Angeles Granite and Brown Stone Company, at Sespe Canon, Ventura County, 
California, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is a thoroughly 
competent superintendent, having been reared to the business in his father's 
quarry in England. The quarry which this company is operating is located eight 
miles east of Santa Paula, on the banks of the Sespe River. The brown stone here 
obtained is exceedingly durable and of a splendid texture. For uniformity and 
permanency of color it is unsurpassed by any brown stones on the continent. The 
works, under Mr. Stock's management, are being run to their greatest capacity, 
filling orders for many public buildings of the country. They are now at work on 
orders for the Academy of Science and the Concordia Club building, San 
Francisco, also the Keating Block, San Diego. They also furnish the stone for 
the Reform School building. The stone for the Whittier building was supplied by 
them, the corner-stone of which weighed ten tons. They are now getting out six 
stones, fifty-two feet cube, each weighing seven tones. 
    Mr. Stock was born in England, October 9, 1859, the son of John and Ann 
(Thomas) Stock, natives of England. John Stock was the owner of a quarry, and 
both his sons learned that business with him. The quarry is still in the 
possession of the family, and is now being conducted by his son Charles. Mr. 
Stock was married in 1878 to Miss Alice Emily Player, a native of Bristol, 
England. They have three children, born in England: Walter, Victor and Greta. 
Mr. Stock is a member of the Congregational church of Los Angeles city.
 
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 327