Sacramento County
Biographies
PAUL GRAF
PAUL GRAF, manufacturer and dealer in harness, saddles, etc., Sacramento, is a native of Germany, born at Muhlhausen, Baden, January 10, 1846, his parents being John and Helena (Rehm) Graf, the father a farmer and paper-maker. Paul Graf was the youngest of a family of nine children. He attended the public schools from the age of six until he was fourteen, and afterward at private schools. He then engaged in farm work. In 1867 he came to America, taking the steamer Hansen from Bremen to New York. He remained in the latter city for some time, then came to California via Panama. He took the steamer Rising Star on the Atlantic side, and on this side the steamer Golden Age, landing at San Francisco in October, 1868, and coming from there to Sacramento. His first employment here was with Mr. Eiser, a harness manufacturer, and six months later he went with John T. Stoll. On the 5th of February, 1886, he commenced business for himself on K street, between Eighth and Ninth, and in March, 1887, he removed to his present location, No. 1128½ J street. Here he carries on the manufacture of harness, and handles saddles, collars, and in fact everything pertaining to a well-regulated store in his line. Mr. Graf was married in Sacramento, in February, 1877, to Miss Louisa Dresch. They have two children, viz: Mina and Mabel. Mr. Graf is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 105, I. O. O. F.; Lodge No. 42, Knights of Pythias, and of the Sacramento Turn-Verein. He taught athletics in the gymnasium for years. Mr. Graf has got his business well under way, and is making a first-class reputation as a business man.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 759. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.