California Genealogy and History Archives
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CLARENCE
M. GRIFFETH The
manufacture of ice cream and butter is conducted now along scientific
lines, and there is no man in the business in Northern California who is
more progressive or more determined to do the very best in his field of
labor that can be done than Clarence M. Griffeth, whose establishment,
built up from a small beginning, is located at .No. 2008 N street,
Sacramento. Born
in Sacramento July 13, 1884, Mr. Griffeth was educated in the public
school and at a modern business college, and then for ten years was
employed by his father, M. B. Griffeth, in the latter 's grocery at
Seventeenth and M streets. Early in 1910, with his father and mother, he
began his present enterprise in a 10x12 room at the rear of his father's
store, with no machinery but an ordinary crank freezer which he operated
by hand. In three months he had a commercial freezer and a motor, and in
April, 1911, moved to his present commodious quarters, where he has the
most up-to-date plant of its kind in the city, making and selling on an
average four hundred and fifty gallons of ice cream daily. In
October, 1911, Mr. Griffeth began the manufacture of creamery butter. In
order to excel in this branch of his enterprise he took a special course
in butter-making at the California state dairy farm at Davisville, which
included special instruction in the handling of cream. He is now
contemplating the enlargement of his place of busi- ness and the
introduction of very material improvements, in order to meet the
steadily increasing demand for his ice cream and butter. Although he
gives the greater part of his time to the manufacturing business, he is
also interested in his father's grocery business. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |