Alameda County Biographies

E. R. ANTHONY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Among the well known residents of Alameda, California, is E. R. Anthony, who holds the 
important position of assistant superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railway Company. Mr. 
Anthony was born in Sacramento, California, in 1860, and has been a resident of Alameda, 
Alameda county, ever since 1875. After completing his education, he entered as a youth the 
services of the Southern Pacific Railway Company and gradually rose to importance. For 
seventeen years Mr. Anthony was a paymaster of the company and for ten years has been 
assistant superintendent. He is successful largely on account of his rare executive ability, 
and he also has the knack of handling a great amount of detail work without overlooking the 
more important phases of work under his direction. Mr. Anthony stands in the most cordial 
relations with the men who work under him, who esteem him as a man of character and one who 
is just in all of his dealings. He corrects by censure where such a course is needed but he 
is just as ready to commend any of his employes for their enterprise and faithfulness, and 
stands high in the estimation of his superior officers.
	Mr. Anthony was married on the 20th of June, 1883, to Miss Helen V. Hitchcock, a 
native of Illinois and to them have been born three children. Gerald is a resident of Alameda; 
E. R., Jr., is with the American Radiator Company at San Francisco; and the daughter, Helen, 
is at home.
	Mr. Anthony is socially popular in Alameda, where he has many friends. He is well known 
in commercial circles and has done much toward popularizing his company among business men of 
the place add section. Fraternally he is a Mason, exemplifying in his life the beneficent 
principles of that order, and politically he is a republican, having been active in the 
interest of his party for many years. For twenty years he has been the president of the Alameda 
Republican Club. Mr. Anthony is a business man of probity, energy and good judgment, and the 
high position which he has attained in railroad circles has come to him in response to hard work 
and close application. He interests himself in all public measures that will make for the 
improvement of local conditions and is in every way a public-spirited man and valuable citizen.

Past & Present of Alameda County, California – Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 58