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CARL SAEMANN

Carl Saemann became widely known as a successful restaurant proprietor of Sacramento, where he spent the last two or three years of his life in honorable retirement and passed away February 23, 1923, at the age of fifty-two. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2, 1871, a son of William Saemann, and pursued his education in the schools of his native city. When a youth of sixteen years he crossed the Atlantic to the United States, making his way to Schenectady, New York, where he obtained employment in the Edison plant and received a thorough training in the electrical business. After some years he resigned his position to come to Sacramento, California, and here he continued to reside throughout the remainder of his life. He was in the service of the Pacific Gas & Electric Company prior to opening a restaurant of his own near the post office, which he conducted most successfully until closing out his business interests about 1920. Thereafter he lived retired until his death.

On the 29^th of January, 1910, in Sacramento, California, Mr. Saemann was united in marriage to Miss Freda Rink, only daughter of Fred and Henrietta (Schulz) Rink. Her father, a native of Landau, Germany, took up his abode among the pioneer settlers of Sacramento, California, in 1851, when seventeen years of age, and was first employed as a bookkeeper by the firm of Nicholas & Berry. With the passing years, as success attended his undertakings, he became the owner of a great deal of property in East Sacramento, and he maintained a popular family resort on his ranch of about eleven acres at Thirty-first and J streets. The land which is the present site of the beautiful gardens and building of the Alhambra was at one time his chicken yard. His extensive property holdings were kept intact until after his death, which occurred June 5, 1919, but have since been largely sold. His wife passed away December 28, 1910. Their daughter Freda became the wife of Carl Saemann and the mother of two sons: Carl, Jr., who was graduated at the California Military Academy of Palo Alto, and was a student at the Junior College of Sacramento when he was killed in an automobile accident on the 6^th of January, 1930; and Robert, who is a youth of seventeen years.

Fraternally Mr. Saemann was affiliated with the Masons, the Eagles and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being an officer of the last named. His religious faith was that of the Lutheran Church and his life was an upright and honorable one in every relation, so that his death brought a sense of deep bereavement to his many friends as well as to the members of his family, to whom he was ever a devoted and loving husband and father. Mrs. Saemann has membership in the Lutheran Church, in the Eastern Star and the Saturday Club and enjoys an enviable position in the social circles of the city which has always been her home.

Transcribed by Debbie Walke Gramlick.

Source: Wooldridge, J.W. Major History of the Sacramento Valley California, Vol. 2 pgs. 321-322. The Pioneer Historical Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.

Sacramento County Biographies