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17 de jul. de 2018 · Introduction. Adolph Sutro, full name Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro, was a German merchant, entrepreneur, and politician who emigrated from Aachen, Germany to San Francisco with a ferocious ambition to attain success in the “New World.”. Rarely lacking doubt in his own capabilities, Sutro pursued a variety of businesses in pursuit of both ...
ADOLPH SUTRO A Brief Story of a Brilliant Life. by Eugenia Kellogg Holmes. Illustrated by Carl Dahlgren. At Aix-la-Chapelle— the German Aachen— an ancient and imperial city, capital of the district of that name in Rhenish Prussia, one of the three divisions skirted by the storied Rhine, the location a delightful and fertile valley, girdled by frowning mountains, dense with dark forests and ...
28 de feb. de 2015 · Adolph Sutro, the self-made millionaire who designed Sutro Heights and later the second Cliff House, developed the amazing Sutro Baths in 1894. With his special interest in natural history and marine studies, he constructed an ocean pool aquarium among the rocks north of the Cliff House. Sutro then expanded his ocean front complex by ...
Adolph Sutro is remembered for building the Cliff House and Sutro Baths, battling the Southern Pacific railroad, and serving as a populist mayor (in 1895-1896). But when he arrived in San Francisco in 1879, he was just another silver millionaire (his $900,000 from the Nevada Comstock silver mine was worth about $22 million in today’s dollars).
The Sutro Tunnel was envisioned and carried out by Adolph Sutro. A Prussian immigrant and entrepreneur, Sutro proposed to build a drainage adit that would efficiently drain the water from the Comstock Mines, reduce transportation costs, ventilate the mines and protect the miners lives. The tunnel connected to the Savage Mine on July 8th,
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 ...
Adolph Sutro. Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia on April 29, 1830. The second eldest of 13 children, he and most of his siblings emigrated to Maryland from Germany with their widowed mother in 1850. California’s Gold Rush brought him west to San Francisco a year later, where he became a ...
