Sacramento County
Biographies
ALBERT
GEORGE PAPE
ALBERT
GEORGE PAPE.--A contracting painter whose
reputation as an artistic decorator and a skillful sign-maker has extended
throughout Sacramento County, is Albert George Pape,
who was born in Germany, on August 26, 1880, the son of William and Minnie Pape. He attended the excellent schools of that country,
and when sixteen years of age came across the ocean to the United States, and
for a while, in the East, continued his schooling, learning English. He had
begun to learn his trade as a painter and decorator, in the Old World, while he
attended school at night, and when he came to Chicago he was able to get
employment as color man with a decorating firm doing a large business. In all
that he did, he tried to attain the highest and best results, regardless of the
immediate financial returns, and thus he built up an enviable reputation for
both ability and dependability.
During 1911, he came to Sacramento and
worked as a journeyman for five years, and then he embarked in business for
himself. He decorated the Bret Harte Hotel at Grass
Valley, the Butte County National Bank, at Chico, the Deering
Bros. shoe store in Sacramento, the Stoll Hotel in the same city, and the Igo Hospital; and he finished many of the finer houses,
including the Jack Mayden home, and the Sutter Candy
Store. Now his flourishing business has grown to such proportions that he is
able to give steady employment to six men. He is fond of his trade, and spends
much time improving himself, and keeping abreast of
the times. This is probably the easier for him on account of inherited ability,
for his father was a noted pictorial artist of Germany, and did much work for
the German nobility. He belongs to the Master Painters’ Association and the
Builders’ Exchange. In politics, he is a Republican.
When Mr. Pape
married, he chose for his wife Miss Vesta Russell, a
native daughter, by whom he has had two children, Karl and Louise. The entire family enjoy an agreeable popularity on account of their
local patriotism, each seeking in some way to boost Sacramento, town and
county.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 895-896. Historic Record Company,
Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.