San Diego County Biographies
 
P. M. THOMASON

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whose well appointed establishment for all sheet-iron roofing and cornice work, 
is located at 1331 C street, San Diego, was born at Sheridan, Lucas County, 
Iowa, in August, 1855, his father being a native of North Carolina and his 
mother, of Indiana. There were six children, five of whom are still living, his 
father was a farmer, and owned a highly improved farm of 320 acres, near 
Sheridan, where the subject of this sketch received his early education, 
residing at home and attending the common schools. He came to California in 
1883, spending one year in and near San Francisco, then in 1884 he entered the 
employ of P. S. Lawson, who had a well established tinning and roofing business 
in Sacramento, remaining with him until 1887, when he came to San Diego and 
worked with Edward Harris until March, 1889, when Thomason bought out the 
business, and is meeting with very flattering success. He does a general 
business in roofing, cornice and jobbing work, preferring the wielding of heavy 
sheet-iron, as his establishment is fitted with such machinery as is 
particularly adapted to that line of business, If honest thought and 
straightforward actions win success, Mr. Thomason is sure to "get there."
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  332