Yolo-Fresno County CA Archives Biographies.....Drummond, Malford H. 1859 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

MALFORD H. DRUMMOND

    One of the best known erstwhile citizens of Davis, who has contributed
largely to the progress of the locality, is Malford H. Drummond, who now resides
in the Sandwich Islands. A son of L. C. Drummond, deceased, he was born on his
father's farm near Davis, May 1, 1859, and was educated in the public schools of
Davis, later taking a course in Atkins Business College in Sacramento. At the
age of twenty-three he engaged in the hardware business in his home town in
partnership with E. W. Brown, but less than a year later sold his interest and
became a member of the hardware and grocery firm of Liggett & Drummond. His
efforts in behalf of this venture proved most successful and business steadily
prospered.

    March 13, 1884, Mr. Drummond was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Callaway
of Oregon. Scarcely sixteen months later, in a runaway, Mrs. Drummond was thrown
from a buggy and killed, leaving her husband and infant son, Lester, to meet
life without the dear presence they had known such a short time. Unable to find
content in the place so associated with memories of his wife, Mr. Drummond two
years later went to Fresno, where he bought a farm. His next move was to the
Sandwich Islands, where he served as deputy collector of customs and afterward
became a member of the Merchants' Exchange of Honolulu. Mr. Drummond is a very
prominent member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His many friends in
Yolo county remember him as a true son of his nobly ambitious and prosperous
father, whose name will ever stand high in the community where he was known so
well.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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