Sacramento County
Biographies
HERMAN RYDBERG
The old and honorable trade of
mirror-making is one requiring peculiar skill and experience and only those
succeed in it who have given it careful and patient study. One of the
successful mirror-makers of California is Herman Rydberg, No. 2116 Fourth street, Sacramento. Mr. Rydberg was born in Smaalan, Sweden, May 16, 1869,
and was there educated and initiated into the mysteries of mirror-making.
When he was eighteen years old he went to Australia, where he worked at his trade until 1906. From Australia he came to San Francisco and engaged in business on his own account. After
eighteen months' successful experience there, he came to Sacramento and established a place for the manufacture of mirrors at
First and I streets under the name of the Sacramento Mirror and Glass Beveling
works. In April, 1911, he moved his establishment to Fourth and U
streets, where he erected a fine factory, covering a ground space of 30x 80
feet, fitted up with new machinery and all essentials for the successful
manufacture of fine mirrors and the accurate beveling and artistic decoration
of glass. His business gives constant employment to four men.
March 26, 1909, Mr. Rydberg married Miss Lucy
Smith, a native of Scotland, who had come to Sacramento. They have a son, George, who was born March 27, 1910. Politically Mr. Rydberg
is a Republican; he affiliates with the Masons and the Fraternal
Brotherhood, and he and Mrs. Rydberg are attendants
upon the services of the German Lutheran church, toward the maintenance of the
varied interests of which they are liberal contributors.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento
County, California, Pages 675-676. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1913.
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.