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Pioneer:
Charles and Gustav Sutro were also mining brokers who became prominent
San Franciscans. On January 27, 1829, Charles was born in the German
village of Aix La Chappelle. The westward march of events and the
glamorous tales that came back home from the new world prompted Charles
and his brother Gustav to go to New York and then to western Canada.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, they became tobacconists. In 1852
the romantic call of California brought them to San Francisco where
Charles found employment in a mercantile establishment.... In 1858,
with his brothers, Albert, Emil and Gustav, he formed Sutro and Company
to engage in general banking. |