Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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T. J. WELDON, 
 
Cashier of the California Bank, and president and treasurer of the California 
Warehouse Company, is one of Los Angeles' business men who has risen to 
prominence and achieved success solely through intrinsic merit and well-directed 
energy. He was born in New Brunswick forty-four years ago last December. When 
seventeen years of age he went to sea on board of a merchant vessel, of which 
his uncle was Captain, and followed a seafaring life over four years. Soon after 
ceasing his wanderings on the deep he came to California, and, locating in 
Nevada County, engaged in the lumber business. While there he married Miss 
Cutten, a native of Nova Scotia. In the early part of 1874 Mr. Weldon moved to 
Los Angeles, continuing in the lumber trade until 1880, when he went into the 
Farmers and Merchants' Bank as a bookkeeper. Starting in at the lowest position 
in that capacity, he rose by successive steps during his nearly seven years of 
connection with the bank till he reached that of paying teller. Upon the 
organization of the California Bank in 1887, Mr. Weldon was elected cashier of 
the new banking house, and resigned his position as teller in the Farmers and 
Merchants' Bank to accept it, and has filled that office ever since that 
prosperous financial institution was opened. Mr. Weldon was one of the 
incorporators of the California Warehouse Company, of Los Angeles, and is 
president and treasurer of it.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 673
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler