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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born in Aachen, Prussia, April 29, 1830. He had an excellent education in the field of mining engineering. He arrived in San Francisco aboard the steamship "California" November 21, 1850, and immediately engaged in trade, first in San Francisco and later in Stockton. In 1859, when the Comstock Lode made ...
10 de may. de 2021 · At age 49, Adolph Sutro returned to his adopted home of San Francisco, astride a wave of popular and economic success. A Jewish-Prussian immigrant in 1850, Sutro had used his powerful rhetorical ...
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born April 29, 1830 in Germany. Sutro arrived in California in 1850 and was well educated in the field of mining engineering and business. Sutro made his fortune in the late 1860s and 1870s at the Comstock Lode silver mines in Nevada where he designed and constructed a massive tunnel that drained and ventilated the flooded mines shafts.
74. Prussian immigrant Adolph Sutro, a tobacco merchant and skillful engineer, succeeded in solving the drainage, ventilation, and access problems in the mines at the famous Comstock Lode in the Nevada Territory. Sutro owned a thriving tobacco and import company in San Francisco, but in 1859, news of a huge gold and silver strike east of the ...
Adolph Sutro in his library. The Sutro Library is a branch of the California State Library located in San Francisco on the campus of San Francisco State University.The foundation of the library's collection was assembled by former San Francisco mayor, engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Adolph Sutro.The library was deeded to the State of California by Sutro's heirs with the stipulation ...
1 de feb. de 2022 · Adolph Sutro’s career in nineteenth-century California and Nevada was sort of like a western flash flood: spectacular but brief and, ultimately, rather ephemeral. Sutro’s name lingers ghostlike in many places—Sutro Tower, Sutro Baths, Sutro Tunnel, Sutro Heights, Sutro Library—but his achievements have been obscured by fires, feuds, scandals, powerful opposition, the passage of time ...
Adolph Sutro was born in 1830 in Aachen, Germany. The third of eleven children, he moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland in 1850 after the death of his father. Sutro relocated to San Francisco just a year later as one of many who sought opportunity in the Gold Rush. There he opened a number of businesses but left in 1860 to work in ...
