Thomas Albert Work

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

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 He worked for a while delivering milk.

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. He built several of the buildings in Monterey County.

In 1900, Work purchased the First National Bank of Monterey, acquiring it in 1906. He was president of the bank for more than twenty years.

Personal life and death Work married Maude Elise Porter, a teacher, on August 14, 1895.

Later, T. A. Work remarried to Elinore Coe, an Army colonel's widow, and relocated to Pebble Beach.