San Francisco County
Biographies
ROMULO LUNA
ROMULO LUNA, a commission merchant at No.
1236 Dupont street, San Francisco,
established his business in 1878, and since that time he has been prominently
identified with every step of progress made in the commerce of the
city. The house does a general commission business, buying, selling and
shipping the produce of the coast.
Mr.
Luna was born in the city of Antlan,
Mexico, February 17, 1847, the fifth
of six children born to Rafaid and Refujio (Gomez) Luna, natives of Mexico. The
father died in 1849, and our subject was educated in (sic) Guadalaxara,
and completed the course at St. Mary’s College, San
Francisco, in 1876. He learned book-binding in Mexico,
and followed that trade in San Francisco
from1876 to 1878, at which time he embarked in the commission business. In
addition to this he conducts a restaurant near his commission house, and is
also the owner of city lots in Oakland,
and gold-mining property at Tuolumne Hill, which is now being developed.
Mr.
Luna was married at San Francisco, December 25, 1888, to
Miss Felicitos Ganzalez, a
native of Mexico,
and they have four children living, viz.: Miguel, Romulo, Carlos, and
Rodolfo. Two of their children are deceased, – Carlos, who died in 1889,
and Enrique, in 1888. Mr. Luna is a member of no secret order, but is
associated with the Spanish Benevolent Society of San Francisco; also the Chileno Society.
Transcribed7-7-06
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages
421-422, Lewis Publishing
Co, 1892.
©
2006 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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