Los Angeles County
Biographies
ADOLPH RAMISH
RAMISH, ADOLPH, General
Contracting, Los Angeles, California, was born in Grass Valley, California,
August 19, 1862. His father was Louis Ramish
and his mother, Amanda (Lewis) Ramish, both native of
Germany. He married Dellaphene Speck, at Los Angeles,
February 14, 1903.
He was in Berlin from the age of four to eleven years and
attended private schools in that city. He returned to the United States in
1873, and went immediately to San Francisco, where he resumed his studies. At
the age of seventeen he was engaged in the mercantile business. Two years later
he entered the employ of Claus Spreckels, the famous
sugar king. Mr. Ramish was given the position of
assistant cashier and was sent to the Sandwich Islands, acting as Assistant
United States Consul. He tired of life in the far-away islands after two years,
resigned his position and returned to San Francisco.
Upon arriving in the United States, Mr. Ramish went to Los Angeles. He first engaged in the
mercantile business, but later he organized, with Charles F. Off, the
Pacific Truck and Transfer Company. In 1887, Mr. Ramish
sold his interest in the truck business, which is now known as the Pioneer
Company, and formed a partnership with Martin C. Marsh, one of the
oldest contractors in the southwestern part of the country. He personally
promoted and built the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, and as half owner of it,
was actively engaged in its management and direction up to the fall of 1910.
Mr. Ramish has since started construction of the
Adolphus, another handsome theater.
Mr. Ramish has become heavily
interested in oil and mining stocks. He is a prominent Mason, an Elk and First
Grand officer of the Native Sons of the Golden West, in which organization he
was one of the earliest charter members.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
12 May 2011.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 658,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston,
Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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