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CLAUDE REDWINE
MOUNTAIN VIEW GARAGE
SURNAMES: HATCHETT, MARTIN,
Perhaps no family in recent years has added so much to the business,
social and political life of Mountain View as has the Redwine family,
and Claude Redwine is a worthy representative of this useful and
prominent family. Born at Marshall, Searcy County, Ark., January 27,
1886, he is the son of Simon L. and Susan (Hatchett) Redwine, the
former born at Marshall, Ark., in 1860, and the latter a native of
Leslie, Ark. The family removed to Texas and there Claude grew up,
receiving his education in the grammar schools and later attending the
high school of Fort Worth; after graduation he entered the Polytechnic
Business College and received his technical training that later became
so valuable. Both parents reside in Mountain View, as do also the four
children; Claude, L. Clyde, and the two daughters, Leslie and Lesta.
Before settling in Mountain View Claude Redwine was employed at the
Watsonville Garage in Watsonville, Cal., for five years, and thoroughly
learned the automobile trade and became a first-class garage man and
machinist, able to handle all kinds or repair work. He removed to
Mountain View in 1913 and purchased the Mountain View Garage from C. N.
Higdon, and through hard work and giving first-class service his
business grew and expanded so that the next year, needing more capital
and a greater capacity for handling his business, the firm was enlarged
by taking in his father, S. L. Redwine, and his brother, L. Clyde
Redwine, the old name being retained.
The office and sales force consist of nine persons and the firm has a
large, well-equipped and up-to-date machine shope, with good
machinists, ready and able to do all kinds of auto, truck and tractor
work on short notice. They deal in the Ford line of autos, trucks and
tractors, John Deere and Oliver plows, harrows and cultivators; also
tires and tubes, batteries, acetylene welding, oils, gas, greases and a
full line of Ford and Fordson accessories and extras. The business of
the Mountain View Garage has increased to such an extent that a larger
building was erected in 1918. The new well-equipped garage and machine
shop, 75x150 feet, is a very busy place, and enjoys a large patronage.
The senior Redwine has full charge of the office, while Claude and L.
Clyde Redwine attend to the sales department and have charge of the
shop.
Mr. Redwine returned to Texas in 1918 and married Miss Jeannette Martin
of Clarendon, Texas. They reside at 483 Hope Street, Mountain View, and
are the parents of one child, June. Mrs. Redwine is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Redwine was first elected and served as
a member of the board of trustees of Mountain View in 1918, and served
for the two-year term, and in 1920 was reelected under the new law,
which provides for a four-year term, and was chosen chairman of the
board. Ever busy and efficient, he brings his best efforts to bear for
the good of Mountain View, which has its own municipal water works, the
water being pumped from three wells by means of steam and electric
power; it also has its own library and city hall, and a volunteer fire
department with two fire trucks. Next to Palo Alto, it has the lowest
rate of city taxation of any city in northern Santa Clara County, one
outstanding feature being that street paving is paid for out of the
genreal fund, and the city's bonded indebtedness is very low, being
only six per cent of the assessed valuation as against fifteen per cent
allowed by law.
Transcribed by Marie Clayton, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 538
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