Sacramento County
Biographies
PIERRE A.
HUMBERT
PIERRE A. HUMBERT, civil engineer at Folsom, was born in the city of New York in 1838, studied in the University at Berlin in 1874, taking the general engineering course. He was engineer two years for the Vielle Montague, and two years for the Compagnie Real Asturiana, of Belgium. He returned to the United States in 1878, and came to California, and from that time to the present has been engaged in various pursuits on the coast, connected with mining and civil engineering; and since May 21, 1888, he has been chief engineer of the Folsom Water-Power Company. In his chosen profession he ranks with the best civil engineers in the country. He was married in 1881 to Mary A. Anglon, a native of Rockland, Maine, and a sister of Mrs. Charles Aull, whose husband is the warden of the State Prison at Folsom.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 679. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.