History of Fresno County, Vol. 4 by Paul E. Vandor

Author:Paul E. Vandor [Vandor, Paul E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY), General
ISBN: 9783849659011
Google: Oh0DEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2020-10-15T00:41:55+00:00

GEORGE LAMERS.

It isn't what a man has, but what he does with what he has that determines his standing in a community. A man may be possessed of the brightest of minds, or an abundance of wealth, but if he does not develop his brain, or if he uses his money for his own selfish ends, he has reflected no credit upon himself nor upon the community. A man with less of either brain or money, rightly expended, will reflect a greater luster. With what respect do we look upon the man who has come to the top knowing every step of the ladder.

Such a man is George Lamers, who was born at Nykoping, Jylland, Denmark, September 21, 1882. His father, Edward Lamers, was a native of Denmark, a carpenter by trade, who died when the son was only four years of age.

His mother, Elise Marie (Nielsen) Lamers, since her husband's death has married again and lives on the old home place in Denmark. Her name now is Andersen.

George Lamers attended school in his native land, and remained there until he was twenty years old. In 1902 he came to America, locating in Chicago where he worked at the carpenter trade for two years, and then came to Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, Cal., and engaged in railroad work. Soon becoming bridge carpenter for the Southern Pacific, he was later transferred to the car repair shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Dunsmuir, Cal., and stayed there four years. In 1909 he resigned from his work at Dunsmuir and came to Fresno, taking employment with the Santa Fe Railway Company. He is an able workman and the company has recognized his worth by making him foreman of the car repair shops at Fresno, where there are thirty-eight men employed.

He was married in San Jose, to Mary Jensen, a native of Denmark. They live in one of the companies' houses at Calwa, a suburb of Fresno, are members of the Danish Lutheran Church at Fresno, and are highly respected by all who know them. And so, perhaps never thinking of doing it, he is illustrating the truth of what a poet has said, "Honor and fame from no condition rise, act well your part — there all the glory lies."

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