San Mateo-Santa Clara-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Thrall, F. H. 1875 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)

F. H. THRALL

   One of the leading commercial enterprises of Burlingame is the electric store
of F. H. Thrall, at 1401 Broadway, where he commands a large and steadily
increasing trade. He has had long and practical experience in the handling of
electric lighting fixtures and is qualified as an expert in that line of
business. Mr. Thrall was born at Sycamore, De Kalb county, Illinois, on the 4th
of December, 1875, and when seven years old was brought to California by his
parents, who located in Saratoga, Santa Clara county. He secured his early
education in the public schools of that place, graduating later from the
Valencia grammar school, now the Horace Mann school, in San Francisco. When
thirteen years of age he went to work for the Whittier-Fuller Paint Company, and
later became clerk in a department store. However, that line of work did not
suit him and he entered the employ of the Thomas Day Company, dealers in
electric lighting fixtures in San Francisco, with which concern he remained for
twenty-one years. Later, for about nine years, he was with the Roberts
Manufacturing Company, since which time he has been engaged in business on his
own account in Burlingame. A man of keen commercial sense, courteous and
accommodating in his relations to the trade, he has won a large patronage, his
sound business methods and square dealing gaining for him the confidence of all
who have dealt with him.

   Mr. Thrall was united in marriage to Miss Hazel Metalf, who is a native of
San Jose, this state, and they are the parents of three children, Frank M.,
Marcella and Janet. Mr. Thrall is a member of Mission Lodge, No. 169, A. F. & A.
M., of which he is a past master; is a past eminent commander of San Francisco
Commandery, K. T.; and is a past worthy patron of Mission Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star. He has long been particularly interested in Boy Scout work, to
which he has devoted considerable time for the past thirteen years, being at the
present county commissioner of Boy Scouts for San Mateo county. For twelve years
he was a member of the school board of Burlingame and is now a trustee of the
San Mateo union high school district and Junior college district of this city.
He is also a member of the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce and the Broadway
Development Association, and has shown a healthy interest in everything tending
to elevate the moral and civic life of the community and is regarded as
exemplifying in his own life the essential qualities of good citizenship. For
these reasons he commands the sincere respect and confidence of his fellow men
and has many warm and loyal friends. Mr. Thrall has built and occupies a fine
story and a half residence at 124 Park road.


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HISTORY
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COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928


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