Sacramento County
Biographies
LOUIS LOCH
LOUIS LOCH, of the firm of Rohr & Loch, proprietors of the Pioneer Bakery, Sacramento, is a native of Germany, born in the Province of Bergenfeld, Duchy of Oldenberg, on the 5th of September, 1842, his parents being Christian and Julia (Bumgard) Loch, the father a baker. He was reared at his native place, and then attended school from the age of six to fourteen. He learned the baker’s trade, and then traveled throughout Germany. He entered the army at the age of twenty-one, in the Oldenberg Infantry Regiment, and served two years. He came to the United States in 1869, and after two months in New York, came to California, arriving in Sacramento on the 5th of September. He went to San Francisco, and thence to San Jose, where he worked in the New York Bakery for Mr. Derr. He next went to Virginia City, Nevada, where he worked two and a half years, and in 1881 again came to Sacramento, and went to work for Messrs. Vogel and Meyers, where he was employed for four years. He then went to work in the Pioneer Bakery, finally becoming a partner, as elsewhere stated. Mr. Loch was married in Sacramento, February 14, 1888, to Miss Ella Cotter. He is a member of the Hermann Sons, of the Druids, and of the Bakers’ Verein, San Francisco. Mr. Loch is an active man, and well deserves the success with which he is meeting in business.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 753-754. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.