Biographies
FREDERICK NOLD
FREDERICK NOLD.—An experienced, clever plasterer, who is also a very enterprising and successful contractor, well-known throughout Sacramento County, is Frederick Nold, of the capital city, where he was born in what is now the Capital Park, Thirteenth and L Streets, on March 13, 1864. His parents were Fred and Carrie (Engle) Nold; and his father, mother and the sister, then an infant, came via Panama to California in 1854, and located at Sacramento, where the father rounded out the remainder of his life, dying in 1910, aged eighty-one, full of honor and rich in friends. Two years later, his devoted wife, the mother of their five children, only two of whom are living—William, of Oakland, and Fred—breathed her last, aged eighty-three, beloved by all who had the privilege of knowing her.
Fred
Nold went to the public schools, and then duty called
him, although a mere boy he went to work for a living. During a laborious apprenticeship, he learned
the blacksmith trade; but when once he had mastered that, he gave it up to
learn the trade he concluded he would like better, that of the plasterer. He worked hard, and when ready to set out, he
was also ready to set up in business for himself; and for the past thirty-five
years he has had his own shop, his own customers, and been his own “boss.” He plastered many of the best residences in
town, and such special buildings as the Kimball and Upson Store, and the
Metropolitan Store; and as becomes the pioneer plasterer here, he has finished
the plaster part of both the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Jewish
Synagogue. Coming from an old pioneer
family, Mr. Nold feels a deep interest in
In
1907, Frederick Nold was united in marriage with Miss
Rose Augusta Egner of
Transcribed by Betty J. Vickroy.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 384. Historic Record Company,
© 2007 Betty J. Vickroy.