William A. Radford

[1] He married and had two sons with Helen M. Manuel, and by 1899 was living in Riverside, Illinois.

[1] It was the Radford Architectural Company for which he is remembered, whose output over the years comprised more than 40 books on various types of construction and more than 1000 plans and specifications for buildings ranging from homes to small commercial buildings.

[1] Radford founded this company in 1902, and his publications were collaborations with prominent authors in the field at the time including Frank E. Kidder, Alfred G. King, and Ira O.

[2] Radford embraced what were then modern innovations, with books on construction types that were just coming into use such as his 1700-page-long 1910 Radford Cyclopedia of Cement Construction which dealt in the use of concrete and whose articles were written by a team of experts on the subject.

[2] Radford retired to a ranch in Cupertino, California, at the onset of the Great Depression and died there in 1943.