Tuolumne
County
Biographies
ALBERT TRITTENBACH
California is as cosmopolitan as any
state in the Union. The favorable
opportunities it presents for getting on in the world have been made available
by enterprising men of every land. Some
natives of Switzerland and many more descendants of old Swiss families have
done well there. One of the most
prominent citizens of Swiss blood of Tuolumne County is the well known mining
man whose name appears above.
Albert Trittenbach is a son of Jacob
and Ann (Muller) Trittenbach, who were born, reared and married in Switzerland
and who in 1853, not long after their marriage, came to the United States,
hoping to improve their fortunes. Mr.
and Mrs. Trittenbach settled at St. Louis, Missouri, and there their son Albert
was born November 11, 1858, and the mother died in 1864, aged thirty-three
years, leaving a husband and three sons.
In 1869 Mr. Trittenbach came with his three boys to California, where he
prospered as a merchant and eventually retired from business, and he now lives
in San Francisco. Gustave
Trittenbach, his eldest son, is prominent in business
circles in San Francisco, where he is the manager of the city department of the
New Zealand Fire Insurance Company and the president of the Dutch Mining and
Milling Company; and Emil, the youngest of the family, is in the coal trade in
the same city.
Albert Trittenbach, the second son
of Jacob and Ann (Muller) Trittenbach, began his education in the public
schools of St. Louis, where he lived until he was eleven years old, and
continued it in the public schools of San Francisco. After he left school he learned assaying and
metallurgy, intending to make mining his business, and engaged in mining at
Glencoe, Calaveras County, in the employ of the Valentine Mining Company as
assistant superintendent and assayer to mill men. In 1884 he spent some time in Arizona and
after that he went to the Calico mining district in San Bernardino County,
California, where he had the management of the sampling works and acquired a
mine of his own and with several partners bought and sold mines to
advantage. Then, giving up silver
mining, he became the superintendent of the Platt and Gilson mine at Soulsbyville,
a position which he held five years and a half, during which time considerable
gold was taken out of the mine. Meantime
he acquired an interest in other mining enterprises there and became a
stockholder in the Duct mine at Quartz, of which he is the superintendent under
the direction of the Dutch Mining and Milling Company. This mine is considered one of the best
properties in this vicinity. It has an
electric plant and all necessary apparatus of the most modern kind, and the
work has been carried to a depth of eleven hundred and fifty feet.
Mr. Trittenbach lives in a fine
residence on this property, and his management of the interests of the company
in which he is a stockholder has won the unqualified approval of all his
associates. He is widely known as an
experienced and expert mining man, whose estimate of any property is accurate
and valuable. In politics he is a
Republican, but has no time for office holding or practical political
work. A member of the Masonic
fraternity, he is exceedingly popular with his brethren of the order. He was married in 1893 to Miss Florence Superiette, and has two sons, named Philip Edward and
Albert Benjamin.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 568-569. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.