Alameda
County
Biographies
ALFRED
KOTTINGER
The ability which Alfred Kottinger has displayed in his ranching interests has
unquestionably placed him among the first agriculturists of Alameda county. He is located near Livermore, upon a ranch of two
hundred acres devoted to the cultivation of grains and fruits and the raising
of stock, in which work he has met with the success which should characterize
one who has spent his entire life in such pursuits and received such excellent
training as was given him by his father, John W. Kottinger,
one of the representative citizens of this and Santa Clara counties. For more
detailed information on the life of the elder Mr. Kottinger
refer to his sketch, which appears upon another page of this work.
Born in Pleasanton, Alameda county, January 15, 1857, Alfred Kottinger
was the fifth child of his parents. The greater part of his youth was spent in
San Jose, where he attended the University of the Pacific in pursuit of an
education after his sixteenth year beginning to learn the printer’s trade by
working in the office on Saturdays while passing his time in the school room
throughout the week. Until he was twenty years old he continued in his double
work, when he left school and entered a printing office, where he remained the
ensuing six years. Returning to the work of his youthful days he became foreman
on a ranch in the San Joaquin valley, where he remained another two years, and
then worked with his father for about a year. At the end of that period he
rented two hundred acres of land near Livermore and expended another year in
ranching. After that he was associated with his father in ranching until the
latter’s death in 1892, when he purchased two hundred acres of the paternal
estate and engaged in ranching for himself, which he has since continued with
marked success.
In 1883 Mr. Kottinger
was united in marriage with Emily Sangmeister, a
native of California, and of this union were born the following children: M.
Julia (a graduate of the state normal), Josephine Susie, Katie, Edna, Arthur
and Juanita, all but the first three named still being residents of the
paternal home. In his political convictions Mr. Kottinger
is a stanch Republican and a progressive and broad-minded
citizen.
Transcribed by: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: History
of the State of California & Biographical Record of Coast Counties,
California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A. M., Pages 644-647. The Chapman
Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2015 Cecelia M. Setty.
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