San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/3/2009
ALBERT L. BARNES
California owes much to its experienced and highly-progressive hotel men, among whom one finds Albert L. Barnes, the efficient and popular manager of both the Hotel Stockton and the Hotel Clark of Stockton. He was born at Buffalo, N.Y., on January 15, 1882, and was sent to the public schools of that city and the high school in Painesville, Ohio. Then he took a course at the business college at Pittsburgh, Pa., and after that associated himself with the American Window Glass Company, and then the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, both in Pittsburgh.
In 1907, he located in Stockton, and soon thereafter entered the hotel business as a clerk, first with the Imperial and then with the Yosemite Hotel. When A.I. Wagner became the proprietor of the Hotel Stockton, in 1910, Mr. Barnes became associated with him as assistant manager; and ten years later, when Mr. Wagner took the management of the Hotel Clark, Mr. Barnes became manager of that hotel. At Mr. Wagner's death, in August, 1921, Mr. Barnes was appointed manager of both hotels, and this responsible position he now fills to everybody's satisfaction.
In 1907, at Oakland, Mr. Barnes married Miss Alma Wagner, a native of Ventura, and since coming to Stockton both Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have taken an active part in the city's civic and club life. He is a charter member of the Stockton Lions Club, belongs to Lodge No. 218 of the Stockton Elks, and to the Masons, being a member of the Stockton Lodge of Perfection, No. 12, S.R., and also the Sciots. He has a membership in the Stockton Golf and Country Club, the Yosemite Club, the Stockton Ad Club, and the Stockton Chamber of Commerce. With a natural aptitude for the important field he has chosen, and plenty of patriotic pride as well as patriotic optimism, Mr. Barnes has set before himself the task of making his hotels among the best in the state, regardless of the size of the city in which they are located.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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