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HUBERT
J. HUMBERT
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engineering experience extending into different portions of the United
States and Mexico has established the reputation of Mr. Humbert as an
expert in his specialty and gives to him a standing abundantly justified
by his talents. While his association with the business interests of
Sacramento covers a comparatively brief period only (he having come to
this city during the year 1908), already he has won the prestige
connected with occupative ability and the influence established by a
previous gratifying record. It was his good fortune in youth to receive
excellent advantages and thus his natural talent found rational
development under the supervision of efficient instructors. After he had
completed the studies of the St. Louis schools he matriculated in the
Polytechnic of that city and there took a thorough course in
engineering, so that he received the training necessary to the success
of later labors. His parents, Frederick and Augusta (Ochs) Humbert, gave
him every advantage within their means and in the city of St. Louis,
where he was born January 11, 1871, he received the training so
indispensable to the most complete mental development.
As an erecting engineer connected with the St. Louis branch house
of the New York City firm widely known as the De La Vergne Machine
Company, Hubert J. Humbert acquired a valuable experience in his chosen
occupation. During 1895 he resigned from that position and engaged with
the Consumers' brewery in St. Louis, where he held the position of
assistant engineer for eighteen months. Next he transferred his services
to the Anheuser-Busch brewery of St. Louis in whose large plant he
served as assistant chief engineer for seven years. When finally he
resigned from that company he went to Mexico and became chief engineer
in a brewery at Monterey. Two years were spent in Mexico and he then
returned to the States, where in New York City he engaged as erecting
engineer with the De La Vergne Machine Company, continuing in that very
important place until 1908, the year of his location in Sacramento. Here
he engaged with the Buffalo brewery as assistant chief engineer, a
position that he has filled with the intelligence, fidelity and
efficiency characteristic of him in every business connection. In
addition he is manager and a director of the Sacramento Pump
Manufacturing and Supply Company, engineers, machinists and founders,
operating a large plant at No. 1800 E street, and carrying in stock a
complete assortment of centrifugal pumps for all purposes as well as
refrigerating plant supplies. The company has as its president H. I.
Seymour, while E. McElwaine is secretary and treasurer.
The discharge of personal business duties has left Mr. Humbert
little leisure for participation in public affairs, but in every place
of his residence, whether east or west, he has kept in touch with civic
progress, has contributed to municipal prosperity and has been a factor
in the general welfare. Politically he votes with the Republican party
in general elections, while fraternally he is identified with the
Masonic fraternity and Legion of Honor. When he came to California and
settled in Sacramento he brought with him his cultured young wife, whom
he had married in St. Louis November 26, 1896, and who bore the maiden
name of Lena Dieterle. Their position since has been one of prominence
among the most refined circles of Sacramento society, where their worth,
education and attainments make them honored guests.
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