THE VALLEY OF HEART's DELIGHT

Bio-Sawyers
SURNAMES: LARSON, KEFFEL,

A thoroughly experienced miller whose success speaks well for the exceptional opportunities afforded by the Golden State is F. A. Linquist, the efficient and popular manager of the Alber Bros. Milling Company at San Jose.  He was born at Chelsea, Wis., on August 23, 1885, the son of Charles A. Linquist, the well-known contractor who came to California in 1887, and who had married Miss Lena Larson.

Our subject enjoyed all the advantages of both the grammar and high schools of San Jose, and he particularly profited from a first-class business course.  Then, for eleven years, he was with the Garden City Bank and also the bank of Italy, in San Francisco, and after that he organized the Farmers' Grain & Poultry Supply Company, in San Jose , a partnership concern, in which he was active for a year.  On January 1, 1920, he assumed his present responsibility.  He threw himself enthusiastically into the undertaking, mastered the details, and so built up an enviable trade that the company now operates within a radius of twenty miles and does an ever-increasing business.  All America knows the excellence of any Alber's output, and the Alber Bros. Milling Company, under Mr. Linquist's expert and energetic management, bids fair to enjoy more and more popular favor and to increase each year, with the natural and healthy expansion and growth of Santa Clara County, in sound prosperity.

At San Jose, in 1911, Mr. Linquist was married to Miss Elsie C Keffel, a native of San Jose and the daughter of George Keffel, and their union hs been blessed with one son, F. A. Linquist, Jr. Mr. Linquist is a Mason, and belongs to the chapter, the Council and Commandery, and he is also an Elk and a Druid.  He is fond of hunting and fishing, and so naturally has some very good stores to tell.  Politically , he votes with the Republicans.

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California,  published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. 1392