Adolph Sutro

Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro ( born April 29, 1830 in Aachen, † 8 August 1898 in San Francisco) was the 24th Mayor of San Francisco, who ruled the city from 1894 to 1896. He still is despite his short tenure as one of their most famous mayor, because numerous attractions bear his name.

Life

Sutro had to leave with 16 years of school in order to take over the lead in the company of his father, a clothing entrepreneur. After his death in December 1847, he ran the business along with his brother Otto. When the business was getting worse by the revolution of 1848, the mother of Sutro decided to leave the country and the U.S. to go where the family arrived in the fall of 1850. They settled in Baltimore. The California Gold Rush led Sutro to go shortly thereafter to San Francisco. For nine years he worked with a small business. In 1856 he married.

The electrification of the West Coast brought new technical possibilities to ventilate the gold mines and empty out the water accumulating therein. Sutro informed about the possibilities and was enthusiastic about the idea of ​​using the new technology. He sought and won over investors, including William Chapman Ralston, for a project, the Sutro Tunnel at the Comstock Lode in Nevada. The tunnel was completed in 1878 and had 6.5 million U.S. dollars cost.

The tunnel project was the business breakthrough for Sutro. He was a well known and wealthy man with a large property. The Populist Party convinced him to run in the mayoral election in 1894, which he won. His tenure was marked by disputes with local businesses, primarily the Southern Pacific Railroad. Sutro died in 1898, leaving a large fortune to the quarreling his heirs.

Appreciation

In addition to the tunnels with Sutros name of Mount Sutro, Cliff House, Sutro Tower and the Sutro Baths, one of the largest private baths San Francisco's connected. In his hometown of Aachen, a street was named after him on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of the death.

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