Sacramento County
Biographies
MRS. MILLIE FREDERICKS
MRS. MILLIE
FREDERICKS.–Among the well known native Californians of Sacramento is Mrs.
Millie Fredericks. Here she was born in
the family home located near the corner of Fourth and L Streets, the only child
of Charles and Selma (Riehl) Riehm,
the former a native of Alsace-Lorraine, born in 1826, and the latter a native
of Baltimore, Md., born in 1832. In 1854
Charles Riehm brought his bride to California
via Panama, arriving in Sacramento
in May of that year. He had followed his
trade of machinist for a number of years before coming to California,
and after his arrival here was employed by the Central Pacific Railroad at the
company’s shops in Sacramento; and
he was one of the first men to receive a pension from this company for capable
and long-time service. Mr. Riehm was one of the first men to be employed by the
Central Pacific, and he finished the making of the shovel that turned the first
dirt at the building of the roads, connecting the East
and the West. This shovel is on
exhibition in San Francisco at the
Southern Pacific offices. On December
31, 1880, Mrs. Riehm passed away. She was survived by her husband until
December 12, 1915, when he died, aged eighty-nine years. He had been a member of Eureka Lodge No. 4,
I. O. O. F., for fifty years.
Millie Riehm received a good education in the public schools of Sacramento. On July 11, 1888, in Sacramento,
she was married to Charles J. Fredericks, born in Hanover,
Germany, October 20, 1865, the eldest
son of the late Christian Fredericks, who was a settler of the seventies in Sacramento. Charles J. Fredericks accompanied his parents
to California and attended the public schools of Sacramento,
completing his schooling in Atkinson’s Business
College. Then he became a clerk and bookkeeper in a
wholesale store, and later established and conducted a retail hat store for
many years on J Street, Sacramento. Mr. And Mrs. Fredericks
are the parents of one daughter, Ethel G., a graduate of the Sacramento
high school, class of 1906. On October
3, 1909, Miss Fredericks was married to Albert I. White, and they have three
sons, Jack Lincoln, Charles Albert and Henry Fredericks. Mrs. Fredericks is past noble grand of the Rebekah Lodge, No. 232, Sacramento,
and has served as financial secretary for eighteen years,
and as a delegate to the grand lodge, and is a very well known worker for that
order.
Transcribed 1-28-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 365. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.