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Identifier: historyofstateof00guin_2 (find matches)
Title: History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Guinn, J. M. (James Miller), 1834-1918
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Publisher: Los Angeles : Historic Record Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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fathered the proposition until itscompletion, which was about four years ago. Hewas at that time chairman of the tunnel commit-tee and is still acting as its president. This com-mittee was appointed by the Merchants Ex-change, of which Mr. Sohst was also president. Mr. Sohst is also active in fraternal circles,being a member of the Odd Fellows organiza-tion and one of the original thirteen chartermembers who on July 7, 1864, organized theOakland Lodge No. 118. He is likewise a mem-ber of Oakland Lodge, No. 171, B. P. O. E.,being the forty-sixth addition to that lodge, whilehis son is the one thousand and first member ofthe same lodge, showing its rapid growth sinceits organization. Mr. Sohst is a charter mem-ber of the Oakland Turnverein Society and adirector of the German Old Peoples Home ofOakland, and a member of the German Club.Although he has proven so good a citizen of hisadopted country, yet he maintains an honest loy-alty for the Fatherland, where he first saw thelight of day.
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HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 437 The marriage of Mr. Sohst, which took placein San Francisco in 1863, united him with MissMargaret Buckingham, of Boston, Mass., whocame to California in 1859. They became theparents of six children, of whom five are living,as follows: Minnie, the wife of L. Emly, ofOakland; Nelli, a resident of Oakland; WilliamW. H., manager of the Pioneer Carriage factory,who is married and has two children; Alice, thewife of Harry Elfen, a prominent optician ofOakland, and member of the firm of Davis &Elfen; and Carl G., of Oakland, who marriedMiss Grandgene; he is an Elk,. Mason, and amember of the Native Sons of the Golden West;Adolph, deceased, was killed by an accident in1890. Mr. Sohst has built up for himself sincehis early location here a place among the repre-sentative citizens, being deservedly held in highesteem for the services he has rendered Oaklandin her early growth and development. GEORGE W. REED. One of the leading attorneys of Oakland isG

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