SIDEWALK SIGNATURES 
Carlos Wilkins

Long Beach’s sidewalks contain impressed “signatures” of many pavers who plied their trade in the city. If your ancestor owned a construction company or worked for one of those cement contractors, our “Sidewalk Signatures” series will be of interest to you.

photo: QHGS

Carlos Wilkins was a cement contractor who laid sidewalks in Long Beach during the early 1900s. In the 1922 Long Beach City Directory he is listed like this: “Wilkins Carlos (Ellen) cement contr h 927 Linden av.” Born in Wisconsin in 1858, he married Minerva Ellen Haworth in 1883, and he was enumerated in the 1900, 1920 and 1930 censuses in Long Beach. In 1910 he moved for a short time to Pomona, California, where he worked as a chauffeur, giving rides to people in his 1916 Chevrolet touring car. Carlos died in Long Beach on March 25, 1934. He was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery and his tombstone has been photographed by a volunteer at Find A Grave.

RESEARCH NOTE: Information for this article came from the FamilySearch website, the Find A Grave website, and from California Automobile Registration 1921, Volume 5, available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/.