Alameda County Biography

Benjamin A. Glover

Benjamin A. Glover, residing in Oakland, has served as manager of the Berkeley branch of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company since 1910. He was born in Flint, Michigan, on the 11th of August, 1876, and attended the graded and high schools until graduated at the age of nineteen years. Subsequently he pursued a two years' course of study in a commercial college at Bay City, Michigan, and was afterward employed as billing clerk and baggageman by the Grand Trunk Railroad for three years. Later he was engaged with various railroads in different capacities until the time of his removal to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he entered the service of the Independent Telephone Company. Mr. Glover was next identified there with the Bell Telephone Company in the contract department until 1907 and in that year was transferred to Oakland, the company being here known as the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company. He held the position of district contract agent until 1910 and was then transferred to Berkeley as manager of the branch at that place, in which connection he has proven a valued and efficient representative of the corporation.

On the 1st of September, 1906, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Mr. Glover was joined in wedlock to Miss Marie Colby. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is also connected with the Michigan Society and the Masonic fraternity. A cordial, genial manner wins his friends wherever he goes, and he well merits the esteem which is accorded him.

Past and Present of Alameda County California, Vol. II
Published in Chicago by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1914
Page 161
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 5/31/2008,

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