Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Weilbye, Julius L. 1842 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JULIUS L. WEILBYE, architect and builder, residing at Sunol, is a prominent and
progressive mechanic who deserves special mention in this volume. He was born on
a farm near Alvarado, Alameda County, May 5, 1854, and at an early age learned
the carpenter and joiner's trade in the town of Haywards. Soon he began making
building contracts for himself, and went to Livermore, where he became a foreman
for J. S. Duncan, and remained in that position until 1877. He then went to
Oakland, where he was employed in the Pioneer Planing Mills three years, when he
made architecture a special study. A year later he took charge of the Verdi
Planing Mills, of Verdi, Nevada, that place being destroyed by fire in 1881.
Here Mr. Weilbye lost his drafting instruments, library, and all his mechanical
tools. The plant was immediately rebuilt, and conducted by him until 1885, when
he went to Sunol, his present location, and where he has designed and built many
of the private residences, besides some of the public buildings in the county,
as the public school building at Livermore, a hotel at Sunol, the public school
building, many residences, churches, etc. He has for many years made
architecture a special study, thereby reaching a station at the head of his
business. In addition to his designs and building operations at his present
location, he has established and carries on a lumber yard, having a fine and
well-selected stock of lumber and building materials. In his political views he
is a Republican, and takes an active part in political matters. He is a member
of Brooklyn Lodge, No. 225, F. & A. M., at East Oakland, and also a member of
Oakland Chapter, No. 86, Royal Arch Masons.

  Mr. Weilbye is the son of Lars and Ida Weilbye, natives of Copenhagen. His
father was a seafaring man, and first came to America as master of a sailing
vessel, landing in 1847 at the point now known as Montgomery street, San
Francisco, which was then the water front. Thence he went to a point near
Haywards, and owned and worked a farm until his death in 1857. Mr. Weilbye, our
subject, was married in Livermore, to Mary, the oldest daughter of A. Overacker.
His family now consists of his wife and her son.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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