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HERMAN
RYDBERG The
old and honorable trade of mirror-making is one requiring peculiar skill
and experience and only those succeed in it who have given it careful
and patient study. One of the successful mirror- makers of California is
Herman Rydberg, No. 2116 Fourth street, Sacramento. Mr. Rydberg was born
in Smaalan, Sweden, May 16, 1869, and was there educated and initiated
into the mysteries of mirror-making. When he was eighteen years old he
went to Australia, where he worked at his trade until 1906. From
Australia he came to San Francisco and engaged in business on his own
account. After eighteen months' successful experience there, he came to
Sacramento and established a place for the manufacture of mirrors at
First and I streets under the name of the Sacramento Mirror and Glass
Beveling works. In April, 1911, he moved his establishment to Fourth and
U streets, where he erected a fine factory, covering a ground space of
30x80 feet, fitted up with new machinery and all essentials for the
successful manufacture of fine mirrors and the accurate beveling and
artistic decoration of glass. His business gives constant employment to
four men. March 26, 1909, Mr. Rydberg married Miss Lucy Smith, a native of Scotland, who had come to Sacramento. They have a son, George, who was born March 27, 1910. Politically Mr. Rydberg is a Republican; he affiliates with the Masons and the Fraternal Brother- hood, and he and Mrs. Rydberg are attendants upon the services of the German Lutheran church, toward the maintenance of the varied interests of which they are liberal contributors. |
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Source: Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011 |