CARY PEEBLES TAYLOR

 

An official whose growing popularity has enabled him to render more and more acceptable service, thereby better satisfying both the public and the higher officials of his company, is Cary Peebles Taylor, the division superintendent of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, at their headquarters in Marysville.  He is a native son, born at Santa Clara on December 10, 1884, the son of G. H. and Kate (Peebles) Taylor.  The father came out to California in 1852 from New York, traveling across the Isthmus, and located at San Francisco; and Grandfather Augustus Taylor was one of the founders of the Society of California Pioneers.  G. H. Taylor followed ranching for several years, and for some years he was superintendent of the Santa Cruz Gas Company’s plant; and the remainder of his life was spent in Chico, where he was superintendent of both the gas-works and the water-works.  He died in July, 1921, full of years, and with a long record for usefulness and honor in all of his transactions.  Grandfather Cary Peebles, hailing from an old Kentucky family, located at what became Peebles, now Agnew Station, in the Santa Clara Valley; and he was prominent in promoting the early railroads of the State.

Cary Peebles Taylor attended the grammar and high school of Chico.  After graduating from the latter, he matriculated at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, from which he was graduated in 1910, when the A.B. degree was conferred upon him at the end of his electrical engineer’s course.  He then spent a year and a half in the works of the Westinghouse Company in Pittsburgh, and was graduated from the apprentice course there, after which he returned to California, in October, 1911, and in December of that year became an operator at the electric power house for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company in Amador County.  He was later transferred to Sacramento as foreman of Station A, and in 1916 took up construction work for the company on the Yuba River project.  Next he was made superintendent of the old Nevada district, remaining there until September, 1917, when he accepted a commission as second lieutenant of engineers in the Engineering Corps of the United States Army, and for six weeks went into training at Fort Leavenworth.  He was transferred to the chief engineer’s office at Washington, D.C., and served in the General Engineer Depot as production officer.  Commissioned first lieutenant in April, 1918, he was honorably discharged in January, 1919.  Coming back to the Coast, he remained six months in Southern California.  Reentering the service of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, he was appointed superintendent of the Marysville district.  On the reorganization he was made assistant superintendent of Colgate division; and in February, 1922, he was promoted to be division superintendent with headquarters in Marysville.

At Los Angeles, in 1914, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Gertrude Wallace, of Rialto, San Bernardino County; and they have two children: Gilbert P. and Mary Elizabeth.  Mr. Taylor is a member of Corinthian Lodge, No. 9, F. & A.M., and is a life member of Chico Lodge, No. 423, B.P.O.E.  He is a charter member of Yuba-Sutter University Club, of which he is also president.

 

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924

p 1075

 

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DWIGHT SANFORD SCOTT