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AUGUST WACKERBARTH
WACKERBARTH, AUGUST, Architect, Los Angeles, Cal., was born at Hessia, Germany, May 8, 1859, the son of Henry and Martha Elizabeth (Trau) Wackerbarth. His forefathers were soldiers and farmers to times immemorial. He married Lottie Adams, June 6, 1887, at Monte Vista, Cal. There are three children, Augusta Esther Fragner, Henry O., and George A. Wackerbarth.
Mr. Wackerbarth attended the technical schools of Holzminden, Brunswick, the Polytechnic Institute at Langensalza, Province of Saxony, and graduated from the latter in the spring of 1876.
He traveled Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, England and other European countries before he came to America. He arrived in New York, July 2, 1878. He went to Independence, Ia., and then moved to Chicago, where he remained until 1882. He arrived in Los Angeles, November 22, 1882. Mr. Wackerbarth is treasurer and was one of the founders of the Southern California Chapter of American Institute of Architects, is a Mason, charter member of the Southern California Engineers and Architects’ Association, Knights Templar, and Pioneer Society of Los Angeles County and National Geographic Society of the United States of America.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 593,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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