Sutro
Sutro names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sutro ADOLPH HEINRICH JOSEPH, an American mining engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ADOLPH HEINRICH JOSEPH, an American mining engineer; born in Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, April 29, 1830; came to the United States in 1850 and settled in San There he engaged in business till 1860, Francisco, Cal. when he conceived the plan of the great " Sutro tunnel," as a means of developing the Comstock mine in Nevada. He interested capitalists in the project and work was begun on the tunnel in 1869. His contract with the mine-owners called for $2.00 royalty on every ton of ore taken from the mines. When the work was completed in 1879 interest in the tunnel; went to San Franhe sold out his cisco, invested in real estate, and soon became one of the wealthiest men on the Pacific slope. He was a donor of large sums of money to public founder of the Sutro Library, of San institutions; Francisco, and mayor of that cit hat city in 1894. After his death there, Aug. 8, 1898, his will, in which he bequeathed nearly his whole fortune to the city, was contested and broken.
Sutro ALFRED, a British born in 1863
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED, a British born in 1863. He was educated in the dramatist, City of London School and at Brussels, and afterward devoted himself to the writing of plays and other forms of literature. His works include: "The Cave of Illusion," a play in four acts; "Women ALFRED SUTRO in Love, Eight Studies in Sentiment"; "The Foolish Virgins"; "Five Little Plays Maeterlinck's "Wisdom and Destiny," "; "Freedom," a play in three acts; " Life of the Bee," etc. (translations); "Arethusa" ; "A Marriage Has Has Been Arranged"; "The Walls of Jericho"; "The Perfect Lover"; "The Fascinating Mr. Vanderveldt"; "John Glayde's Honor"; "The Barrier"; "The Builder of Bridges"; "Uncle Anyhow"; Choice."
Sutro FLORENCE CLINTON, an American musician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FLORENCE CLINTON, an American musician; born in England; was graduated at the Grand Conservatory of Music in New York with the degree of Mus. D., being the first woman in the United States to receive that degree, and at the Law School of the University of New York. She was a member of numerous literary, musical, and social societies; honorary president of the Grand Conservatory Alumnæ; president of the Hospital for Crippled Children, and prominent as a writer for the advancement of women as composers and musicians. She founded the National Federation of Musical Societies in 1898. She died in 1906.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Adolph Sutro in 1921 as a memory of the Comstock: the tunnel finished in 1879, the fortune, the contested will. His name has since spread over San Francisco in ways the entry could not foresee ear at the city's western edge, whose glass-roofed baths burned down in 1966, and Mount Sutro, crowned since 1973 by the 977-foot Sutro Tower that now dominates the skyline. The Sutro Library survives as a special collection of the California State Library, since 1982 housed on the San Francisco State University campus, and is still consulted for genealogy and rare books. Alfred Sutro, alive and writing when this was printed, died in 1933; his drawing-room plays are now scarcely revived, though "A Marriage Has Been Arranged" lingers as a one-act for students, and Florence Clinton Sutro's 1898 federation endures as the National Federation of Music Clubs.
Written for this edition, 2026.