Butte County
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ALBERT ABRAHAM
ALBERT ABRAHAM.—A figure in the business life of Chico, Butte County, since 1883, Albert Abraham has watched the development of the town and county with a keen interest and has taken part in all movements tending toward the advancement of his section. Born in San Francisco, November 22, 1860, he is a son of Jacob Abraham, a pioneer merchant of that city. On his arrival, in the early days of 1849 and 1850, he engaged in the mercantile business there, and continued, a well-known and prominent business man there, until his death.
Albert Abraham was reared in San Francisco and, on finishing the grammar school, at the age of sixteen, he began clerking in stores in that city. Afterwards he followed mercantile life in Salinas, and then in Hollister and Napa. He has had a varied and wide experience in the business, to which he was born and reared, and has had the opportunity to observe the different phases of the mercantile trade in the state and to keep abreast of the times in his life work.
In 1885, Mr. Abraham came to Chico, and here entered the employ of M. Oser, a dry-goods merchant. Since that date he has been actively engaged in the dry-goods business in Chico, and about fifteen years ago became a partner of Mr. Oser, the firm becoming M. Oser and Company, a co-partnership. Their place of business is on Main and Third Streets, and is the largest and leading dry-goods establishment in Chico, and the county. Mr. Abraham gives his undivided attention to the business and has a wide acquaintance throughout the county, where he is known as a progressive and broad-minded merchant.
The marriage of Mr. Abraham, which occurred in Chico, united him with Miss Margaret McMillan, a native of Canada, and an educator in Northern California before her marriage. Mr. Abraham has just completed a modern residence for his family at Fourth and Norman Streets, where they are at home to their many friends of the city and county.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1122, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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