Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Adolph Sutro
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Family== In 1854, Sutro married Leah Harris (1832β1893).<ref name="Tahoe-Weekly 2016 Jun 15" /> They had seven children: {{div col|colwidth=50em}} <ol type="i" start="1"> <li> Emma Laura Sutro, MD (1855β1938), who on March 27, 1883, married George Washington Merritt, MD (1855β1928)</li> <li> Rose Victoria Sutro (1858β1942), who in 1887 married Count Pio Alberto Morbio (1849β1911). One of their daughters, Marguerite Helen Morbio (1890β1972), had been married from 1916 to 1919 to French Army aviator and nobleman, Count Anselme de Mailly-ChΓ’lon (1887β1929), great-grandson of [[Adrien Augustin Almaric]] [[:fr:Adrien-Augustin-Almaric|(fr)]] (1792β1878), [[Count#List of countships|Count]] of [[Mailly-Raineval|Mailly]], Marquis of [[Haucourt, Pas-de-Calais|Haucourt]] and [[Nesle]], prince of [[Principality of Orange|Orange]] <li> Gustav Emmanuel Sutro (1859β1864)</li> <li> Kate Sutro (1862β1913), who married Moritz Nussbaum (1850β1915), an [[allopathic physician]], anatomy scholar and Professor of Biology at the University of Bonn</li> <li> Charles Walter Sutro (1864β1936)</li> <li> Edgar Ernest Sutro (1866β1922)</li> <li> Clara Angela Sutro (1867β1924), who, on December 24, 1898, in Los Angeles, married Chicago attorney William John English (1845β1926), divorced him in 1912, and on July 7, 1915, in Paris, married Count Gilbert de Choiseul-Praslin (1882β1926), grandson of the French nobleman, [[Charles de Choiseul-Praslin]] (1805β1847), and son of Marie Elizabeth Forbes (1850β1932) β sister of [[Henry de Courcy Forbes]] (1849β1920). Clara and Gilbert divorced in 1921.<ref name="holmes 1895" /><ref name="Hountalas 2009" /><ref name="New-Fillmore 2016 Jun 28" /><ref name="San-Francisco-Call 1898 Dec 25" /><ref name="NYTs 1936 Apr 27" /><ref name="San-Francisco-Call 1907 Mar 5" /></ol> {{div col end}} Leah filed for divorce from Adolph in 1879 and the two officially separated on July 3, 1880. Shortly after Adolph's death in 1898, Clara Louisa Kluge (1863β1943) claimed to be his widow by way of common law marriage. She retained attorney [[Van R. Paterson]] (1849β1902) and prevailed in securing financial support for her two children that she claimed Adolph had fathered: {{div col|colwidth=50em}} <ol type="i" start="8"> <li> Adolph Newton Sutro (1891β1981), who, in January 1926 in San Bernardino, married Olive Woodward Waibel (1901β1979) <li> Adolphine Charlotte Sutro (1892β1974), who married Elliott Lazier Fullerton (1885β1932)<ref name="SF-Examiner 1901 Apr 25" /></ol> {{div col end}} A brother of Adolph, [[Otto Sutro]] (1833β1896), was an organist, conductor, and minor composer who was prominent in music in Baltimore, Maryland.<ref name="San-Francisco-Call 1896 Jan 20" /> Otto's daughters, [[Rose Laura Sutro]] (1870β1957) and [[Rose and Ottilie Sutro|Ottilie Sutro]] (1872β1970), were an internationally acclaimed piano-duo team. Another brother, Theodore Sutro (1845β1927), a New York City lawyer, married [[Florence Sutro]] (nΓ©e Florence Edith Clinton; 1865β1906), a musician, painter, and founding president of [[National Federation of Women's Music Clubs]] on September 18, 1884, in Manhattan. In New York City in 1874, two brothers of Adolph Sutro, Ludwig and Hugo Sutro, established Sutro Brothers, an enterprise for the manufacture of braids and similar articles, which in time grew to large proportions. Upon the incorporation, in 1888, the firm was renamed Sutro Brothers Braid Company.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Biography, A New Cyclopedia |volume=5 |year=1919| page=92 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2UUAAAAYAAJ&q=sutro%20brothers |access-date=November 4, 2022|last1=Cutter |first1=William Richard }}</ref> Cousins of Adolph Sutro, Charles and Gustav Sutro, founded Sutro & Company, a stockbroking company, in San Francisco in 1858. Sutro & Co. stayed independent until 1986 when it was bought by [[John Hancock Financial|John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.]] There it was merged with [[Tucker Anthony]] to form Tucker Anthony Sutro, which in turn was bought by [[Royal Bank of Canada]] in 2001.<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC18970313.2.162&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 LIFE AND DEATH OF GUSTAV SUTRO, San Francisco Call, Volume 81, Number 103, 13 March 1897]</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Sinton|first=Peter|title=Fading Glory / Venerable name in finance is about to disappear as Sutro & Co. is bought by Canadian bank|date=October 14, 2001 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Fading-Glory-Venerable-name-in-finance-is-about-2870019.php|access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)