Yolo-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Lipe, Charles Wilson 1878 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory

CHARLES WILSON LIPE

    One of the most accomplished all-around mechanics in Woodland, Yolo county,
is Charles Wilson Lipe, the proprietor of the Main Street Garage, engaged in the
sale and repair of automobiles, motorcycles and bicycles. Mr. Lipe is a native
son of California, born in San Jose December 15, 1878, a son of Milan Wilson
Lipe. The latter, a native of Pennsylvania, came early to San Jose, where,
though he was a machinist by trade, he was long engaged in the grain trade and
in threshing. At one time he was operating as many as four steam threshers
between Los Angeles and Paso Robles. This branch of his business occupied his
attention six months of each year, and he was known as one of the most
successful threshermen in all California. He is still living in San Jose, where
he and his good wife, who was Miss Agnes McCracken, are resting after many years
of activity, in which they have done well for themselves and their children and
benefited the people among whom their lot has been cast.

    Mr. Lipe's mother, who was born in Scotland, bore three children, all of
whom are living, and of these he was the second born. After receiving his
education in the public schools he served an apprenticeship to the machinist's
trade, and then, after three years at the Enright foundry and machine shop, he
became a student at the Garden City Business College, from which institution he
was graduated. In the threshing season he assisted his father until the latter's
retirement in 1900, and from that time on he has relied wholly on his trade and
business connected with it. For two years he was employed at Wadsworth, Nev.,
for the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in its shops, which are a feature of
the industrial life of that town.

    The next work of Mr. Lipe was as a machinist with the Nevada Engineering
Works, at Reno, where he was soon made general foreman and remained eight years.
He located in Woodland in 1911 and established the Main Street Garage, at Main
and Elm streets, a fully equipped modern machine shop with electric power under
his personal supervision. Mr. Lipe handles all of the popular makes of
automobiles, and is prepared to supply anything in his line, from the simplest
repairs to the making of a complicated machine from blue prints.

    In Sacramento, Cal., Mr. Lipe married Miss Edna Myrtle Olinder, a native of
San Francisco. He is a member of the California State Auto Association. In
Wadsworth, Nev., he was made a Mason in Wadsworth Lodge No. 25, F. & A. M.
Though he has not been long in the city he has made many friends and has shown
that he possesses a public spirit which promises to make him a useful citizen,
alive to the advancement of all worthy local interests.



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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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