John
Haub, of Sacramento, has been a resident of the Pacific Coast since 1857, and
commenced business in the city in 1885. He is a native of Germany, born at
Niederweisel, Hesse-Darmstadt, on the 8th day of September, 1845;
his parents being Philip and Catharine Haub. His father, who was foreman in a
large wholesale house, died in 1850. John Haub spend his early boyhood days at
his native place, and there attended school several years. In 1857, in company
with his mother and his brother George, he came to the United States, landing
at New York, and thence proceeding by steamer, via Panama, to San Francisco. A
month later they went to Marysville, when the oldest boy of the family, Conrad,
was cook at the St. Nicholas Hotel. John Haub finished his education at
Marysville. In 1860, the family removed
to Gold Hill, Nevada, and there the mother died later, in the year 1870. The
subject of this sketch remained with his brother Conrad (who still keeps hotel
at Gold Hill), until 1865, when he went to Virginia City, and engaged with
Thomas Taylor & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, with whom he remained until
1874. He then embarked in the grocery business, and conducted a store for four
years. For the two years preceding 1880 he was watchman for the Bullion Mining Company.
In 1880 he went to White Plains, Nevada, where he was engaged in boring
artesian wells for the Central Pacific Railroad Company for four years. After
that he conducted the Golden Gate restaurant, at No. 267 Third street, about
eleven months, then sold out on account of sickness and came to Sacramento. In
1885 he bought out the restaurant business of Messrs. H. Fisher & Co., and
removed to his present location, No. 612 J street, in February, 1888. He has
greatly increased the scope of his business since starting, and now, besides a
first-class restaurant, he has well equipped confectionery, ice cream and fancy
bakery departments, with a large and growing trade. Mr. Haub was married in
Nevada, in 1868, to Miss Catharine Eger, a native of Germany. They have three
children viz.: John G., W. C., and Lizzie Augusta. Mr. Haub is a member of
Tehama Lodge, No. 3, A. F. & A. M., of Capitol Lodge, No. 87, I.O.O.F., Sacramento;
of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 5, K. of P., San Francisco; of Sacramento Turn-Verein,
and a charter member of Nevada Lodge, No. 3020, K. of H., Reno, Nevada. Mr.
Haub is a man of excellent business qualifications, and is making a gratifying
success of his enterprise in this city.
An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California.
By Hon. Win. J. Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 312.
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