Sacramento County
Biographies
ADOLPH TEICHERT, JR.
ADOLPH TEICHERT, JR.--Among the native
sons who are making a success of large constructive endeavor and are deeply
interested in the growth of the Golden State, taking a material part in its
rapid development, is Adolph Teichert, Jr., who was
born in the city of San Francisco, April 24, 1885, a son of Adolph Teichert, an old-timer in the state and a prominent
contractor, who has attained a high place in business and social circles in the
city of Sacramento.
Adolph Teichert,
Jr., when two years of age, came to the capital city with his parents; and here
he grew to manhood, enjoying the privilege of the excellent public schools of
this city. He graduated from the Sacramento high school in 1903, after
which he entered the department of civil engineering in the University of California, receiving the coveted
degree of Bachelor of Science in 1908.
Although he had been offered a position as instructor in civil
engineering at the University of Montana, he declined it choosing
rather to assist his father in the contracting business. He had grown up in the business, for each
summer from the time he was a youth he had assisted his father in large
affairs, thus becoming thoroughly familiar with every department of the business. In 1912 he was taken into partnership, and
the firm became A. Teichert & Son, and the
business has been carried on under that name ever since. They are specializing in road-building and
street-paving, and among their large contracts are the
highway from Galt to New Hope and a section of the State Highway, from Fresno to Fowler and from Fowler
to Kingsburg. They built the section of
the State Highway from Stevens Creek Bridge to Millikens
Corners, Santa Clara County, and did the paving of the
streets in Redwood City, and the surfacing of Tulare County Highway from Lindsay to Porterville, Tulare County, and from Porterville on through Terra Bella to Richgrove, thirty-one miles. With Thomas Ambrose as
a partner, they built the Sacramento Bypass weir, to take care of the
flood-waters from the city. They built
two sections of the Yolo County Highway and Sacramento City Sump
No. 2, and have paved numerous streets in this city, Turlock, and Oakdale. In the line of construction of buildings,
they did the concrete work on many of the large business buildings in Sacramento. The firm is well supplied with the necessary
equipment for large construction. Their
paving-plant at Thirty-seventh and R Streets is most adequate and complete,
including among other things steam rollers, tractors, and trucks and teams.
In
the capital city, on February 28, 1912, Mr. Teichert
was united in marriage with Miss Augusta Quass, who
was born in this city, a daughter of Henry T. and Catherine (Heilbron) Quass, the father a native
of Germany, while the mother was born in Sacramento. Her grandfather, Adolph Heilbron,
was one of the pioneers of the county and one of its early sheriffs, and was a
very prominent and influential business man.
Henry Quass was also one of the pioneer
business men in this city, and is now living in comfortable retirement. Augusta Quass was
educated at Notre Dame, San Francisco, and at the Sacramento high school, and afterwards
spent a year abroad in the study of music in Dresden, Germany, during which time she also
traveled throughout Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and England. Their union has proven very happy and has
been blessed with the birth of three children: Adolph Jr., second, Frederick and Henry. Mrs. Teichert is a
woman of much culture and refinement, having tastes for the beautiful and
artistic; and she presides gracefully over her husband’s home. A woman of pleasing personality, she is much
loved and esteemed in the circles of the Saturday, Tuesday, and Delphian Clubs. Mr. Teichert has been very prominent in fraternal circles. He was made a Mason in Union Lodge, No. 58,
F. & A. M., and was exalted to the Royal Arch degree in Sacramento Chapter,
No. 3, R. A. M., and knighted in Sacramento Commandery,
No. 2, K. T. He is also a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, being a
member of all bodies of the consistory in the capital city, and a charter
member of Ben Ali Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in Sacramento. While at college, he became a member of the
Delta Upsilon Fraternity; and locally he is a popular member of the Exchange
Club and the Del Paso Country Club. He
holds membership in St. John’s Lutheran Church. A believer in protection for America and Americans, he is a
strong Republican in his political views.
Mr. Teichert gives his undivided time to the
management and enlarging of the business of A. Teichert
& Son, a work for which his professional training and years of experience
well qualify him. He is an active member
of the Contractors’ Association of Northern California, his firm being among
the large contractors in northern California. Mr. Teichert is a
man of energy, never idle, and drives his business forward to success, throwing
into his work much zeal and enthusiasm.
Transcribed by Suzanne Wood.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches,
Pages 540-543.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Suzanne Wood.