Biographies
JOHN A. GERBER, JR.
A native of California, Mr. Gerber was
born in Sacramento, September 2, 1874, and attended the city public and high
schools until he was nineteen years old. Then for three years he studied materia medica with the Merrill
Washburn drug house, and after that till 1901 he read medicine and surgery
under the preceptorship of Dr. Cartwright. He did not
finish his professional studies and engage in the practice of medicine,
however, but turned his attention to a business career instead. From 1901 to
1903, when he sold out that interest, he was a proprietor of a meat market,
after which he was driver for the Cascade Laundry until 1908.
It was in 1908 that Mr. Gerber established
himself in the steam dyeing and cleaning business, an undertaking which has
proved successful, his place of business being at the corner of Tenth and I
streets, Sacramento. In politics a Democrat, in religion a Lutheran,
Mr. Gerber is in all things and in all relations of life a helpful and generous
citizen. He married Miss Edna Coppersmith, of Sacramento, September 4, 1902,
and they have two children, Marion and Ruth, who are students in the public
schools.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 1016-1017.
Historic Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.