Gustav Wahl, of Sacramento, is a native of Germany, born at Neuffen, Wurtemburg, on the 11th of August, 1858, his parents being William and Catharine (Ladner) Wahl. His father kept a bakery and public house. Gustav Wahl spent his boyhood days at his native place, and there attended the public schools between the age of six and fourteen years. He then commenced attending the Loury Polytechnic School, at Stuttgart, where he also learned the trade of stone cutter. When seventeen years of age he went to Zurich, Switzerland, to Berne and throughout Wurtemberg. When he arrived at the age of twenty years he went into the army, and served in the Seventh Wurtemberg Infantry Regiment, No. 125, Third Company, with headquarters at Stuttgart. At the expiration of three years he was discharged with the rank of corporal. In 1882 he came to new York, thence to Omaha, from there to San Francisco, and finally to Sacramento. He was for some time with his brother in the Columbus Brewery, then commenced business for himself at 1023 Third street, his present location. Mr. Wahl was married in this city, in April, 1883, to Miss Frederika Bertsch, a native of the same town as himself. They have three children, viz.: Annie, Edward, wand Walter Otto. Mr. Wahl is a member of Schiller Lodge, No. 105, I.O.O.F.; of Sacramento Stamm, No. 124, Red Men (in which he has been twice chief); of Sacramento Lodge, No. 11, Hermann’s Sons, and of the Verein-Eintracht. Mr. Wahl is a popular man and has a very large number of personal friends.
An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California.
By Hon. Win. J. Davis. Lewis Publishing Company 1890. Page 321.
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