Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE W. NEUBOURG
GEORGE W. NEUBOURG.--A popular transportation official, whose efficiency, together with his genial cooperation, repeatedly proves invaluable to Sacramento commercial and industrial interests, is George W. Neubourg, the wide-awake freight agent of the Western Pacific. He is a native son, and was born at Sacramento on December 17, 1885, the son of Leonard and Dorethea (Kissenbroeck) Neubourg, the former a pioneer who came to the United States in 1848, and to Michigan and California in 1852, traveling by way of the Isthmus, as did Mrs. Neubourg, who reached here in 1863, after which they were married here. Our subject comes, therefore, of the best of pioneer stock. Mr. Neubourg was the proprietor of the Star Mills and Malt House, and he was in that business for thirty years, under the firm name of Neubourg & Lages, when he retired. The worthy couple had six children, and George was the youngest. Mr. and Mrs. Neubourg both died here, rich in friends and enjoying the good-will of a wide circle.
George W. Neubourg profited by the advantages of both the grammar and the high schools of Sacramento, and was graduated from the latter in 1905; and then for a year he was with the surveyor of Sacramento County. After that, he was with the U.S. Geological Survey for three months, leaving on account of his health; and on September 16, 1906, he went to work for the Western Pacific Railroad as chainman of a surveying party running out of Sacramento. He thus saw this railroad built, finished and in actual service; and he is the oldest man in the Western Pacific service. In 1908, he was made a transit man; and on December 1, 1909, he was made a collector, under W. C. Dibblee, the agent here. On March 1, 1911, he was promoted to be chief clerk., and on December 1, 1918, he was office engineer for T. L. Phillips, the engineer for the Western Pacific; and on March 1, 1920, he was appointed freight agent here. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club; and in politics he is Republican.
On May 31, 1913, occurred the wedding of Mr. Neubourg and Miss Norma Ketcham, a native of Sacramento and the daughter of a well-known Southern Pacific locomotive engineer. She passed way March 12, 1923. There is one child, Anna Maria. Mr. Neubourg is a Mason, and is senior warden in the Commandery, and belongs to the Ben Ali Temple and the Shrine; and he is a Native Son of the Golden West.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 801. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.