Imperial-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Folsom, Charles B. 1868 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

CHARLES B. FOLSOM is one of the progressive and successful business men of El
Centro, California, and has made many friends in a business and social way who
esteem him for his business ability and personal characteristics. He is a native
of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was born March 7, 1868, a son of N. R. and M. O.
Folsom. He received his education in Nebraska, where his parents removed, and
they were numbered among the pioneers of their locality, settling in Tekamah,
Burt County, Nebraska, where Mr. Folsom's father and grandfather founded the
town and county in 1854. At the age of seventeen Mr. Folsom started to learn the
plumbing business. He resided in Omaha, Nebraska, for a period of twenty years
where he successfully carried on a business. He made several trips to California
and settled in Santa Monica. He came to El Centro in 1909. At that period the
sanitary conditions were very crude and it was largely through his efforts and
his broader knowledge along lies of sanitation that he did much to improve the
health of his chosen community and especially in El Centro, where he brought
health conditions up to a high state of development. In 1910 he installed the
cast iron water mains in the City of El Centro. He did the plumbing in all the
schools in El Centro, the California Central Creameries, which is the most
modern in Southern California, as well as many of the business blocks and
handsome residences in this city. He has always taken an active part in the
civic development of El Centro. He has held membership in the Chamber of
Commerce since its organization. He is at present chief of the El Centro Fire
Department. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge, holding
membership in the Blue Lodge and Chapter, and is also a Knight Templar and
Shriner. The ancestors of Mr. Folsom are among those who came to this country in
the Mayflower and settled in the New England states and their offspring settled
in New York state.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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