Biographies
OTTO RAIFF
As a whole the immigrants coming to the
United States have made good, and, with few exceptions compared to the
whole mass, the offspring of these immigrants have made exceedingly good. Otto Raiff was born in Germany in 1862 and was educated in the
public schools there. When he was fourteen years old he was apprenticed to the
sheet metal worker's trade, which he mastered and followed there until he was
twenty-one years old. Then, in company with his brother, August, he came to the
United States and located in Dayton, Ohio. There he remained about five years,
when, in 1887, he came west to Sacramento. Soon after his arrival he found
employment at his trade with H. G. Hayes, with whom he remained about a year.
In 1888 he transferred his services to Carlow and
Miller, for whom he worked diligently until 1904, giving sixteen years of
faithful devotion to their business. In the year last mentioned he took he took
an interest in the concern with H. J. Miller and O. J. Edlar
and has since been identified with them in an enterprise which has grown to be
one of the largest of its kind in the northern part of the state, having filled
many important contracts for plumbing and sheet metal work and having others of
equal importance which Mr. Raiff and his associates
plan to undertake in the near future.
February 28, 1891, Mr. Raiff
married at Sacramento, Miss Annie Debrunner, a native
of Switzerland, and they have one child, Varna, born
December 8, 1901. Fraternally Mr. Raiff
affiliates with the Owls and with the Turners' societies.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 978-979. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.