Thomas Albert Work
Thomas Albert Work | |
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| File:T. A. Work.jpg T. A. Work (1930) | |
| Born | November 2, 1870 |
| Died | 17 April 1963 (aged 92) |
| Occupation | Banker |
| Spouse(s) | Maude Elise Porter Elinore Coe |
| Children | 6 |
Thomas Albert Work (November 21, 1870 – April 17, 1963) was an American businessman and banker of Pacific Grove, California, known around Monterey as T. A. Work.
Early life
[edit | edit source]T. A. Work was born in the Shetland Islands, off the coast of Scotland, on November 21, 1870. He was the son of Thomas Albert Work (1833-1894), a minister. In 1883, his brother, already living in Monterey, John Robertson Work (1860-1940), arranged to have T. A. Work live with a family in Monterey[1][2][3] He worked for a while delivering milk.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]In 1889, T. A. Work was a wholesale and retail dealer in stove wood, hay, grain, ground barley, bran, and flour. He also contracted for street work and furnished gravel in Pacific Grove.[4]
In 1895, Work started the T. A. Work Company, a lumber yard; he had been in the lumber and milling business for 15 years, building sheds and other structures.[5] He built several of the buildings in Monterey County.[3][6]: p87-88 [better source needed][2] By 1909, the T. A. Work Company furnished lumber for most of the buildings in Monterey, and built many of the homes in Pacific Grove.[7]
In 1900, Work purchased the First National Bank of Monterey, acquiring it in 1906.[clarification needed] He was president of the bank for more than twenty years.[3] He started banks in Carmel, Hollister, Pebble Beach, Seaside, and Salinas.[8][3] In May 1923, T. A. Work, organized and was elected president of the Bank of Carmel. The Bank of Carmel began with capital stock of $25,000 and with capitalization of $100,000.[9][10][better source needed]
Personal life and death
[edit | edit source]Work married Maude Elise Porter, a teacher, on August 14, 1895.[11]
Later, T. A. Work remarried to Elinore Coe, an Army colonel's widow, and relocated to Pebble Beach.[8][2]
Work died on April 17, 1963, at the age of 92, in Monterey, California.[2][12]
References
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