Windmuller-Heynen Family Tree

She was a woman of rare beauty, intelligence and strength of character. In her girlhood days she was known as the "Beautiful Rose of Dueren." Her father was a wealthy and influential merchant in the city of Dueren, who took pride in giving his children a good education, in pursuance of which Rosa was especially trained at a convent school in her native city.

Soon after the death of her husband, and during the revolutionary uprising and disturbances of 1848 and 1849, Mrs. Rosa Sutro decided to immigrate with her surviving family of eleven children to the United States.

She arrived in New York in October 1850.

The Sutro family is of German origin. Emanuel Sutro, the grandfather of Frederick Charles Sutro, was a native of Bruck, in Bavaria, where he was born December 21, 1791. He married, in 1826, Rosa Warendorff, who was born in March, 1803, in the city Dueren, which lies midway between Aix la Chapelle and Cologne. About 1830 Emanuel Sutro established himself in Aix la Chapelle as a manufacturer of woolen fabrics. He died December 8, 1847, leaving besides his widow, eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, two others having •died in infancy.

Soon after the death of Emanuel Sutro occurred the revolutionary disturbances of 1848, which induced Mrs. Sutro to emigrate from her native country to the United States. Her eldest son, Emanuel S., preceded the rest of the family. In October, 1850, Mrs. Sutro followed with her other children, except two who remained for a time to complete their education. The family took up their residence in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1873 Mrs. Sutro moved to New York, where she died August i, 1883. She was a woman of rare intellect and force of character.

Of the seven sons who survived her, several had notable careers. Most generally known is the name of Adolph Sutro, the builder of the famous Sutro tunnel in Nevada. He was born April 29, 1830, and died in San Francisco, California, August 8, 1898.