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ALPHONSE
ARNOLD In
the German province of Alsace-Lorraine, Alphonse Arnold was born
December 11, 1858, a descendant of many generations of European
ancestors of high character and worthy achievement. He was educated in
public schools in his native land and in 1884 came across the Atlantic
to America, landing in New York in August. From the eastern metropolis
he went to the Southwest, locating at San Antonio, Texas, where he
remained till in 1887, working as a cooper, he having acquired a
knowledge of that trade in the old country. From San Antonio he came
west to San Francisco, where he was employed in a cooperage about
fifteen months, and thence he came to Napa county, in June, 1888. There
he worked for wages till, eventually, he established a cooper's shop at
St. Helena, which he managed with success during the ensuing eight
years. Disposing of the St. Helena interests of A. Arnold & Company,
he came to Sacramento and took charge of the cooperage shop operated by
John Ochsner. In April, 1903, he bought the shop, then located at No.
816 Second street. May 1, 1904, he moved the enterprise to the site at
No. 320 R street, which it has since occupied and where he has made one
of the latter-day business successes of that part of the city. While he was living in Texas, Mr. Arnold married, January 17, 1885, Pelagia Burgunder, who died April 25, 1905, leaving a son, Louis, born March 25, 1892, who is now acquiring a knowledge of the cooper's trade under his father's careful instruction. Self-made in the best sense of the term, Mr. Arnold is in all things thoroughly up to date. His cooperage establishment is perhaps the best plant of its kind in Northern California. He is a member of the Druids, helpful to all the interests of the order, and is a devoted and generous adherent to the Catholic church. In many ways he has demonstrated his characteristic public spirit. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |