San Francisco County
GEORGE LOUIS NUSBAUMER
George Louis Nusbaumer,
George L. first attended school in Dublin, Alameda county, about two years, then a private school in San Francisco some four years, and then at Pleasanton, Alameda county, one year. At sixteen he went to work as chain man for a surveying party in the employ of what was then known as the Western Pacific Railway Company, now a part of the Central Pacific, and leased by the Southern Pacific Company as a part of their system. After six months’ service he was placed in charge of a surveyor’s “level” and worked for the railroad company about two years. He was engaged some two years surveying land and mines in Amador county, and four in Yolo and Colusa counties, on levee work. He assisted in the survey of a channel at the foothills to receive the surplus water, and in other jobs for the Irrigation and Reclamation Company. He continued some two years longer, surveying at different points in the north, in Tehama, Shasta and Lassen counties, laying out, among other jobs, the route for a forty-mile flume for the Sierra Lumber Company at Red Bluff.
In 1879 he came down to his home at Alameda county and was elected its Surveyor, taking office in March, 1880; and by five reelections has been kept in that office to this time, his present term closing in January, 1893. At the last election his plurality was 3,938.
Mr. Nusbaumer is a member of University Lodge, No. 144, I. O. O. F., of Oakland Parlor, No. 50, N. S. G. W., and a charter member of the California Association of Civil Engineers.
He
was married in
Transcribed
by David and Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: “The Bay of
San Francisco,” Vol. 2, Pages 347-348, Lewis Publishing Co, 1892.
©
2006 David Rugeroni.