NEUBOURG & LAGES 

Neubourg & Lages, wholesale dealers in brewers’ supplies and manufacturers of malt, are one of the representative firms of Sacramento. The house commenced business at Bachmann, Lages & Co., in 1866, the members at that time being C.F. Bachmann, C. Lages and L. Neubourg. In 1869 they bought out the interest of C. Weil, in the grocery business, corner of Eleventh and J Streets, in connection with F.H. Rusch, and that business was thereafter continued under the name of Lages & Rusch, until the death of Mr. Rusch in 1870. They carried on trade there under the name of Lages & Co., from the time of Mr. Rusch’s death till 1875, when they sold out the grocery business. On the 1^st of January, 1876, the firm became, by the retirement of Mr. Bachmann, as at present constituted – Neubourg & Lages. Their extensive building on Fifth Street has a frontage of sixty feet, by eighty feet in depth, and is two stories in height with basement, the latter being used in the manufacture of malt. They also have a mill in operation for the manufacture of all kinds of meal. Their trade extends throughout Northern and Eastern California, Nevada and Utah, and is of very large proportions. They also do a heavy business in the exportation of hops throughout the entire United States and Europe. Leonard Neubourg of this firm is a native of the principality of Lippe-Detmold, Northern Germany, born October 21, 1828, his parents being Rev. Carl (a minister of the Reformed Church), and Johanna (Curtius) Neubourg. He attended private school to the age of sixteen years, then entered the mercantile trade as an apprentice, afterward being advanced to the position of clerk. He came to America in 1854, sailing from Bremerhaven on the 31^st of August, on the steamer Germania, afterward used as a transport during the Crimean war. He landed at New York September 20, and a couple of weeks later went to Butler County, and Cincinnati, Ohio. A year later he went to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he clerked and kept books in a brewery. He came to California in 1859, leaving New York on the steamer Western Star, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and landing at San Francisco from the steamer Golden Age, October 16. He came to Sacramento and clerked for Weil & Co., until the firm of Bachmann, Lages & Co. was formed in 1866, with him as a member. Mr. Neubourg was married in 1869 to Miss Dora Kerssenbrock, a native of Germany. They have six children, viz.: Clara, Annie, Lottie, Ida, Carl and George. He is a member of Walhalla Grove, U.A.O.D., in which he passed the chairs. He is president of the Germania Loan & Building Association, and has been one of its directors for nine years, and president since May 1887. He is a pleasant, affable gentleman, and a good businessman.

 

Transcribed by Debbie Gramlick.