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H. W. LOWELL.
H. W. Lowell, manager and one of the proprietors of the Vallejo Bus Company, operating several lines of busses
out of Vallejo, and a man widely known in local business circles, is a native son of California and all his life
has been spent here, a resident of Vallejo for the past ten years. Mr. Lowell was born on a ranch in Sacramento
county, September 5, 1879, and was there reared, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood district schools.
He remained on the farm, helpful in the labors of developing and improving the same, until he had attained his
majority, when he became employed as a stationary engineer in the power plant of the Southern Pacific Railway Company
in Placer county, making his home at Roseville.
For fourteen years Mr. Lowell continued thus connected with the operations of the railroad and then he moved to
Sacramento and became employed as a motorman on the local street railway, a connection he maintained for three
years or until in July, 1916, when his services were secured as manager of the growing business of the Vallejo
Bus Company and he since has made his home in Vallejo, with an interest in the business, his partners being V.
C. Gorst and H. N. Richards. This bus company began operations in December, 1915, with two cars, each of eight
passenger capacity. It now operates eight cars, each with a twenty passenger capacity, and is doing well, providing
a service that is greatly appreciated throughout the territory it covers. The company operates four lines, Mare
Island, South Vallejo, Bay Terrace and Valley Annex, maintains a thirty minute schedule in an eighteen hour day
and in 1924 carried five hundred and thirty six thousand seven hundred and seventy three passengers.
Mr. Lowell is a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West, having become affiliated with that patriotic organization
during the time of his residence in Roseville, and takes a deep interest in the affairs of the society.
From:
History of Solano County, California
BY: Marguerite Hune
and
Napa County, California
BY: Harry Lawrence Gunn
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Chicago 1926
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