[Broadsides : Sutro Library] / [compiled by George Moss]. [189-?]

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[Broadsides : Sutro Library] / [compiled by George Moss]. [189-?]

1 book ; 30 cm.

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Sutro Library

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Moss, George, 1935-

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Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898

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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro, originator of the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada and well-known figure in San Francisco, born of Jewish parents in 1830 at Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany, left school at sixteen, but continued his education by reading voraciously. From his father, a cloth manufacturer, Sutro learned factory management. After his father's death in 1847, with business ruined by the Prussian war, his mother, having to raise seven sons and four daughters, decided to emigrate to the Un...