Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK Z. AHL
FRANK Z. AHL.--A very enterprising industrial establishment which has helped to extend the fame of Sacramento is that of Frank Z. Ahl, known as the Sacramento Cornice Works. Mr. Ahl, who was born in Sweden in 1879, came to Sacramento in 1903, the son of A. and G. Ahl. He had been educated in Sweden, and had learned his trade there; and when only twenty-one he came to the United States.
On reaching Sacramento, Frank Z. Ahl labored as a sheet-metal worker for seven years. Then he became a partner in the firm of Ahl and McLoughlin, with headquarters on J Street. In 1916 this partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Ahl reestablished the business in his own name, in his own two-story building, on Twenty-first, between P and Q Streets. He has been successful from the start, and employs nine men the year round; and among the fine jobs executed by him may be mentioned the sheet-metal work on the Y. M. C. A. building and the city jail and Weimar Hospital. The list of fine residences and imposing business structures put up in part by Mr. Ahl would be indeed an extended one.
In 1905, Mr. Ahl was married to Miss Anna Zackrison, of Sacramento, a talented lady having many admiring friends; and one daughter, Elva, has been born of this fortunate union. Mr. Ahl is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and he also belongs to the Knight Templars and the Shriners. He is affiliated with the Odd Fellows Encampment. He is fond of outdoor life and especially fishing.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 768. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.