Among the well known residents of Alameda, California, is E. R. Anthony, who holds the important position of assistant superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railway Company. Mr. Anthony was born in Sacramento, California, in 1860, and has been a resident of Alameda, Alameda county, ever since 1875. After completing his education, he entered as a youth the services of the Southern Pacific Railway Company and gradually rose to importance. For seventeen years Mr. Anthony was a paymaster of the company and for ten years has been assistant superintendent. He is successful largely on his account of his rare executive ability, and he also has the knack of handling a great amount of detail work without overlooking the more important phases of work under his direction. Mr. Anthony stands in the most cordial relations with the men who work under him, who esteem him as a man of character and one who is just in all of his dealings. He corrects by censure where such a course is needed but he is just as ready to commend any of his employes for their enterprise and faithfulness, and stands high in the estimation of his superior officers.
Mr. Anthony was married on the 20th of June, 1883, to Miss Helen V. Hitchcock, a native of Illinois and to them have been born three children. Gerald is a resident of Alameda; E. R., Jr., is with the American Radiator Company at San Francisco; and the daughter, Helen, is at home.
Mr. Anthony is socially popular in Alameda, where he has many friends. He is well known in commercial circles and has done much toward popularizing his company among business men of the place and section. Fraternally he is a Mason, exemplifying in his life the beneficent principles of that order, and politically he is a republican, having been active in the interest of his party for many years. For twenty years he has been the president of the Alameda Republican Club. Mr. Anthony is a business man of probity, energy and good judgment, and the high position which he has attained in railroad circles has come to him in response to hard work and close application. He interests himself in all public measures that will make for the improvement of local conditions and is in every way a public-spirited man and valuable citizen.
Past and Present of Alameda County California, Vol. II
Published in Chicago by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1914
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 5/25/2008, Pages 58-59
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