Shasta-San Francisco-Nevada County CA Archives Biographies.....Fillman, Samuel P. 1854 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

SAMUEL P. FILLMAN is one of the enterprising business men of Redding,
California. He is manager of the waterworks and the electric light, and thus has
control of two of the important things that contribute to the well-being of the
city-water and light.

  Mr. Fillman was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1854. His parents,
Cunard and Hannah (Peters) Fillman, were both natives of Pennsylvania. He was
the sixth of their eight children, two of whom are deceased. Mr. Fillman
received his education in Williamsport, early evinced a liking for and interest
in machinery and learned the machinist's trade. In 1873 he came to California,
and worked at his trade in San Francisco. Later, he became superintendent of the
Oakland Mine, in Grass Valley, Nevada, in which capacity he remained a year and
a half. In 1887 he came to Redding and put in the pumping system, which supplies
the city with water. They pump into a reservoir which holds 350,000 gallons of
water, and the pumping capacity is 58,000 gallons per hour. Mr. F. Smith, a
capitalist of San Francisco, and Mr. Fillman formed a stock company, with
$100,000 capital, and purchased the electric light plant, 650 lights, of
Thompson & Huston. They have now in use about one-half of the lights. The works
are run by a fifty-horse-power engine. As yet there are no street lights in the
city, but the light is such a success that, doubtless, it will soon be used on
the streets.

  Mr. Fillman has a one-third interest in a very valuable patent medicine, the
celebrated McClellan Diphtheria Remedy. It is being put up and is for sale by
Dugan & Dickey, San Francisco. As an efficient remedy it is unexcelled.

  In 1882 Mr. Fillman was united in marriage to Miss Lotty Rawson, a native of
Wisconsin. To them have been born a daughter and son. The latter is deceased.

  Mr. Fillman is a member of the American Legion of Honor, and politically he is
a Democrat.



Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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