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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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Page: of 233
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Durbrows:
cisco. The ships used to land there very largely.
After thet, I don't know about what time, it must
have been before '56 because my father came in '56,
that my grandfather hed gone to San Francisco, where
he became manager of Parrott & Company Bank, which
was one of the great private banks of that day. For
many years he was the manager of the Parrott & Company
Bank.
Had he teken his family, including your father, with
him on these various jobs?
No. My father lived in Now York until he finished
schooling, after which he had a job for a short time
in New York. Then he came to San Franeiseo to be with
his father. He lived with his grandfather in New York,
but he never lived with his father except in Chicago
for a short time, after which he went back to New
York and continued to live with his grandfather, Joseph
Durbrowe
As the agent for Parrott & Company Bank, my grandfather, Joseph Durbrow, Jr., represented the Parrott
interests. He was a director of the Spring Valley
Water Company and the San Francisco Gas Company ané
various cable railroad companies in Sen Francisco and
he was quite a well-known man at thet time in San