Santa Cruz County Biographies

CLEM H. WARD

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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        Clem H. Ward is a native of Santa Cruz, and one of its prominent young 
men. He is the son of William R. Ward, and was born November 23, 1865. He 
attended the Branciforte public school until he was ten years old, and then went 
with his father to a ranch on the San Andreas. He alternately worked on the farm 
and attended school until 1882. Then for two years more he attended school in 
Watsonville, working out of school hours for the firm of A. Lewis & Co. His next 
education was at Chesnutwood's Business College, in Santa Cruz, from which he 
graduated with honor, having spent his out-of-school hours in working for H. A. 
Clark.
        Under the late E. J. Swift, a capital hotel keeper, Mr. Ward developed a 
special liking and talent for the position of hotel clerk and that business in 
general. He served in this capacity at the Pacific Ocean House and Pope House 
until 1888. In that year Mr. Ed. Martin, county clerk, auditor, and recorder, 
offered Mr. Ward a deputy's chair in that office, which he has successfully 
filled ever since. Mr. Ward was, a charter member of Santa Cruz Parlor, No. 90, 
N. S. G. W.; has gone through all the chairs, and is now its President. He was 
Recording Secretary for four terms. He is also a member of the Y. M. I., No. 12, 
and a director of the leading society club of the city, the Xopos, also a 
prominent member of the Pilot Hose Company.
        He has made a fight against circumstances, for position, and now holds 
an enviable one, both in a business and social point of view, for so young a 
man.
 
HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.-  E. S. Harrison, 
Pacific Press Publ. Co., San Francisco, 1891