Sacramento County
Biographies
FREDERICK
LOTHHAMMER
FREDERICK LOTHHAMMER, one of the well-known citizens of Sacramento, is a native of Germany, born at Wimpffen, Hesse-Darmstadt, December 31, 1830, his parents being Gottlieb and Frederika (Minsch) Lothhammer. The father was a sash manufacturer by occupation. The subject of this sketch was reared at this native place, and there attended the public schools from the age of six years until he was fourteen. For the next year and a half he gave his attention to the profession of music. He then learned the turning trade. In March, 1850, he departed from Rotterdam in a sailing vessel for the United States, and landed at New York July 4. He remained there and at Hoboken for six years, learning the carpenter’s trade at the latter place, and in January, 1856, he went to Watertown, Wisconsin. There he worked as a carpenter a year, then went into the country and followed farming until 1869, when he came to California, locating in Sacramento in October. He followed the building trade here for many years, but is now retired from active business. Mr. Lothhammer was married in Wisconsin, April 6, 1856, to Miss Charlotte Borchart, a native of Prussia, who came to this country with her parents early in the 40’s, locating in Wisconsin. She died in Sacramento in 1877. Mr. Lothhammer was again married in Sacramento, to a widow lady named Schacht, whose maiden name was Catharina Winder. By this marriage there was one child, viz: Emma, who died at the age of four and a half years. Mr. Lothhammer was again bereaved by the death of his wife, in March, 1889. Mr. Lothhammer is a prominent member and trustee of the German Lutheran Church. He has a wide acquaintance and a large circle of personal friends, whose full sympathy he has had in the hours of bereavement.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 753. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.