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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    GEORGE BOEHME, pioneer of Santa Monica, is a native of Alsace-Lorraine, then
a province of France, and was born in the year 1829. He came to America in 1850,
landing at New Orleans. In 1852 he came to California and spent several months
in the mines. In 1854 he established himself in the tinning and plumbing
business, in San Francisco. In 1855, he removed to Sacramento, and engaged there
in the same line of business for a period of twenty years. He there assisted in
laying the corner stone of the present State Capitol building, and later was
assigned the contract for the copper roofing of the same.

    In 1865 was appointed lieutenant in the Sacramento Hussars, Fourth Brigade
National Guards.

    In 1875 he came to Santa Monica and disembarked from the first vessel that
touched at the first Santa Monica wharf. He immediately invested in about $2,000
worth of city lots, purchasing the same at the first auction held. From that
date he took an active part in the material advancement of his chosen home city.
In 1887, he built the Boehme Block, on Second Street, near Utah Avenue, which
was at that time the most pretentious business block in the city. For many years
he carried on a successful hardware and plumbing business and became a large
holder of real estate, both business and residential.

    He held the office of City Treasurer from 1892 to 1895, and was succeeded by
Eugene W. Boehme, his son, who held the office four terms. During recent years
he has led a retired, quiet life.

    Mr. Boehme married in 1860 Miss Mary Kalgarif, a native of Ireland, who came
to New Orleans, at eighteen years of age, and in 1855, with a brother, to
California, and lived at Sacramento. They have three sons and a daughter, George
C., Henry M., Eugene W., well known business men of Santa Monica, and Adaline.

    Mr. Boehme has been an active and successful business man, and commands the
respect and esteem of all who know him.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)




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