Bio-Sawyers
SURNAMES: LIAPPLE, ARNOLD,
Los Gatos, now recognized as one of the most progressive and most promising of towns in Santa Clara County, is fortunate in having, among her well-equipped and well-managed business houses, an excellent pharmacy, of which Will George Lidley, one of the popular of professional men in the Valley, is proprietor. He was born at Kansas City, Kans., on January 7, 1891, the son of John Lidley, an expert mechanic, who had married Miss Freda Liapple. The family came to San Francisco in 1907, and there Mrs. Lidley, beloved by a wide circle of appreciating friends, breathed her last, survived by her husband.

Will G. Lidley enjoyed the advantages of both the grammar and the high schools of Kansas, and in that state and in San Francisco obtained his pharmaceutical training. He came to Los Gatos as manager of Wulzen's Drug Store, at that time a branch of a concern with which Mr. Lidley had been associated in San Francisco, and he continued to manage the business for three years. Then, in 1919, he purchased the establishment, and since then he has directed his efforts toward making it the leading drug store in Los Gatos and one of the best stores of the kind and size in Santa Clara County. He has been president of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Gatos for the past three years and also served as president of the Merchants' Association for a year; these responsibilities speak for themselves.

At San Francisco, in 1917, Mr. Lidley was married to Miss Blanche Arnold of San Francisco, a lady of accomplishment deeply interested—as he is—in both the present and the future of Los Gatos. Mr. Lidley belongs to the Elks and the Woodmen of the World.

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From Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California,  published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1587

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