Sacramento County
Biographies
HERMAN A. MUNDT
HERMAN A. MUNDT--An experienced, efficient and dependable public official who enjoys an enviable popularity because of his Rooseveltian principles, which assure every man a "square deal," is Herman A. Mundt, the wide-awake constable of Granite Township, who was elected to office on November 7, 1922. For years he was in charge of the outside crews of men for the gold dredgers of the Natomas Company of California, at Folsom City.
A native son of the Golden State, Mr. Mundt was born at Auburn, in Placer County, on October 8, 1873. His father, Albert Mundt, was a native of Germany, who came from that country about the time of the migration to the United States of such splendid German-Americans as Karl Schurz, and reached California in 1850, as a prospector for gold; he spent his early days in placer mining, and his declining years as a claim-holder in Placer County, where he died in 1888, at the rather early age of fifty-eight, his shorter tenure of life having been due to the hardships incidental to pioneer experiences. Mrs. (Myers) Mundt was also a native of Germany, who had been permitted to marry in her native country and to share her husband all his adventures while accompanying him on his way to the Golden State. The old Mundt home is now owned by Emile Mundt, the eldest son, who is a farmer and horticulturist.
Herman Mundt received a good training in the public schools to which he had been sent, and filled with unusual ambition for a lad in his teens, he set out for himself at the age of sixteen to mine for quartz near Auburn, joining the Three Star Company, and he has followed mining ever since. He spent eighteen years in quartz-mining in Nevada, and in the Montana copper fields, and during most of that time he held the position of foreman. In 1908 he removed to Folsom City, and was employed by the Natomas Company of California till January 1, 1923. He is a Democrat with respect to his bias in matters of national import; but he is first, last and all the time a broad-minded, broad-shouldered American, and never allows partisanship to interfere with his duties either as citizen or constable.
While at Butte, Mont., in 1898, Mr. Mundt was married on April 22 to Miss Julia Sullivan, a native of Black Hawk, Colo., where she was born on August 27, 1876, the daughter of Patrick Roger and Julia (Regan) Sullivan, of New York and Michigan, respectively, her ancestry being Irish. Mrs. Mundt was reared in the home of her grandmother Regan, where she went to live after the death of her mother, in 1886. Five children have been granted Mr. and Mrs. Mundt. Edna S. was born on August 5, 1900; Albert H. on January 27, 1903; Kenneth F. on January 22, 1906; Aileen on April 23, 1908; and Geraldine F. on December 29, 1917. Mrs. Mundt is a past noble grand of Rebekah Lodge, and also a past senior warden, and Mr. Mundt is a member of Granite Lodge No. 62, I. O. O. F., and of the Rebekahs, and also the Encampment, and is past grand, and was also a delegate to the grand lodge convention. The Mundts own their comfortable residence on Percifer and Wool Streets, which was completed about nine years ago.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County, California
With Biographical Sketches, Page 654. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.