Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK J. RUHSTALLER
FRANK J. RUHSTALLER.--A widely-experienced, progressive and influential man of
affairs in the Sacramento business world, is Frank J. Ruhstaller,
the president of the Buffalo Brewing Company. He was born at Sacramento on November 5, 1872,
the son of Frank and Charlotte (Oeste) Ruhstaller, the former a native of Switzerland, born in 1847, while the latter was a daughter of Germany. Both came to California in 1864, by way of the Isthmus,
and six years later, on December 25, 1870, the were married in the Golden
State. Mr. Ruhstaller died October 28, 1907, mournedd by all who knew and
esteemed him as an efficient, honest man; and Mrs. Ruhstaller
passed away on September 13, in the following year, leaving behind her the
memory of a good woman who cared for the
happiness of others. Both had come to America and adopted this land as their
own, and both had striven, in their modest way, to improve it as they could;
and in doing so, in accordance with the highest patriotism, they brought with
them the best traits for which the people in their respective countries had
always been celebrated.
Frank J. Ruhstaller
attended the public schools and also went to a business college; but he
profited as much by lessons he learned in the hard school of actual experience.
His father had been in the brewery trade since 1881, and when old enough to be
of service to him, he joined his father, and became manager of the Sacramento
Brewing Company. When both Colonel Seymour and Mr. Heilbron
died, Frank J. Ruhstaller became president in the
fall of 1913; and he has been associated with the brewery ever since. He now
devotes his attention to the making of a "near-beer," and also ice,
and to the manufacturing of certain malt extracts. He belongs to the Chamber of
Commerce, and always lends a helping hand in favor of trade extension.
At Sacramento, on November 22, 1899, Mr. Ruhstaller was married to Miss Alice
Root, of Sacramento, and both husband and wife enjoy the fraternal circles of
the York Rite Masons and the Knights Templar and Shriners,
the Elks, the Eagles, the Sacramento Turnverein, the Helvetia Verein and Del Paso Country Club. Mr. Ruhstaller
also belongs to the Native Sons of the Golden West, Sacramento Parlor No. 3,
and as a public-spirited man was active in all liberty loan drives and other
World War work. He is fond of hunting and field sports, and has owned fine
Harness-horses and dogs.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento
County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 294. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.