Emanuel Sutro

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Emanuel Sutro, birth 21 Dec 1791 Bruck, Duitsland, died 8 Dec 1847, occupation: Manufacturer of woolen fabrics, son of Samuel Abraham Sutroo and Ester Isaaks
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From American Biography, 1919:

The Sutro family is of German origin. Emanuel Sutro was a native of Bruck, in Bavaria, where he was born December 21, 1791. He married, in 1826, Rosa Warendorff, who was born in March, 1803, in the city Dueren, which lies midway between Aix la Cha pelle and Cologne. About 1830 Emanuel Sutro established himself in Aix la Chapelle as a manufacturer of woolen fabrics. He died December 8, 1847, leaving besides his widow, eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, two others having die d in infancy.

Soon after the death of Emanuel Sutro occurred the revolutionary disturbances of 1848, which induced Mrs. Sutro to emigrate from her native country to the United States. Her eldest son, Emanuel S., preceded the rest of the family. In October, 1850 , Mrs. Sutro followed with her other children, except two who remained for a time to complete their education. The family took up their residence in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1873 Mrs. Sutro moved to New York, where she died August i, 1883. She wa s a woman of rare intellect and force of character.

Of the seven sons who survived her, several had notable careers. Most generally known is the name of Adolph Sutro, the builder of the famous Sutro tunnel in Nevada. He was born April 29, 1830, and died in San Francisco, California, August 8, 1898 . Soon after the settlement of the family in Baltimore he emigrated, toward the close of the year 1850, to California. In 1859 the discovery of the celebrated Comstock lode in Nevada drew him to Virginia City. In a very short time his practical an d trained mind saw that the clumsy and old-fashioned methods being followed in mining were both inadequate to the needs and frightfully expensive. The shafts of the mines were deep, as low as fifteen hundred feet, the temperature in the lower leve ls high, ranging even to one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit; great volumes of water were encountered, and pumping fifteen hundred feet was expensive; the air was foul and poisonous, and like an inspiration the thought flashed through the visit or's mind, why not drain and ventilate these mines?

Against the opposition of the owners of the Comstock mines he fought for the necessary legislation before the Nevada Legislature and Congress. By dint of remarkable perseverance and force of character he won his fight and constructed the tunnel . Upon the completion of this work he sold his interests in it and again turned his attention to San Francisco. There he bought large tracts of land, developed Sutro Heights, built the Cliff House and The Sutro Baths, and collected a great library . He led several successful fights in the public interests against the corporations, and was finally elected Mayor of San Francisco. His was an heroic character that ranks with the foremost pioneers of California.

Theodore Sutro, the youngest son of Emanuel and Rosa (Warendorff) Sutro, born March 14, 1845, is a graduate of Harvard College, distinguished at the New York Bar, also in journalism, in literature, as a connoisseur of art, and as an orator; and pr ominent in the public and social life of New York.

Ludwig Sutro, the sixth son of Emanuel and Rosa (Warendorff) Sutro, was born April 8, 1839, and married, at St. Louis, Missouri, November 21, 1876, Lilly Fraatz, born December 12, 1851, daughter of Otto and Louise Fraatz, of the city of Goettingen , in Germany. With his brother Hugo he established, in 1874, under the firm name of Sutro Brothers, in the city of New York, an enterprise for the manufacture of braids and similar articles, which in time grew to large proportions. Upon the incorp oration, in 1888, of the Sutro Brothers Braid Company, Ludwig Sutro became president of the corporation. In 1915 he resigned from the executive control of the company and became chairman of its board of trustees. He is a notable merchant who follo wed, throughout his business career, the finest ideals of mercantile rectitude and justice. Caring nothing for social or public distinction, he devoted himself to charities, in which he has taken a generous and helpful interest.
Married 1826 to:
Rosa Warendorff, birth MRT 1803 Dueren, Duitsland, died 1 Aug 1883 New York, VS

1) Adolph Sutro, birth 29 Apr 1830 Aken, Duitsland, died 8 Aug 1898 San Francisco, CA, VS, occupation: San Francisco, burgemeester
This Day in Jewish History 1895: A German-born Jew Briefly Becomes Mayor of San Francisco
ead more: https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/1.695792
"On January 7, 1895, German-born entrepreneur and engineer Adolph Sutro became mayor of San Francisco. Although his mayoralty was limited to a single, two-year term, which even Sutro admitted was undistinguished, he was a colorful figure who in hi s private life contributed a great deal to his city&Aelig;s development. He also played a dramatic role in the Nevada silver-mining industry of the late 19th century."

"Among a field of six candidates, Sutro gained an absolute majority of the votes, and on January 7, 1895, he began his two-year term. (Although Sutro is often described as San Francisco&Aelig;s first Jewish mayor, that distinction actually belongs to Wa shington Bartlett, who was in office 1883-1887, following that with a brief term as governor of California, the first and to date only Jew to fill that position.)"

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