Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Schutte, Gustav W. 1866 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    GUSTAV W. SCHUTTE has been a resident of California since 1874. He came to
Los Angeles at nine years of age. His father, August Schutte, a cabinet maker by
trade, worked many years for Dotter & Bradley. Young Schutte attended school in
the old building that stood at the corner of Spring and Second Streets, where
now stands the Bryson Block. His teacher was Miss Bengaugh. He also attended
Miss Parker's school on Eighth Street, between Broadway and Hill Streets. He
attended the old high school then on the present site of the Los Angeles County
Court House. He was born in Berlin, Germany, August 1st, 1866, baptized in St.
Stephen's Church. The family came to America in 1868 and lived for a time at
Allegheny City, Pa. Later they came overland to San Francisco. Mr. Schutte
learned cabinet making and was an expert in the business, but by reason of poor
health was compelled to abandon the same, and took up the study of music,
perfected himself as a cornetist and violinist under German masters, notably
Prof. J. H. Ohllwedal, a graduate of Leipsig Conservatory. Mr. Schutte pursued
music as a profession for six years as a member of the original orchestra with
Lillian Russell, later in Nellis Boyd's "All Gold Instrument Band Dramatic
Company," two seasons, in which he was known as the boy band leader. He was six
years in the band of the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled
Veteran Soldiers. He was compelled to abandon music because of loss, of health
and eyesight, and took up his residence at Santa Monica. He organized an
orchestra of string instruments in his home city and is its leader.

    Mr. Schutte married Miss Sarah Wright, a native of Hillsdale, Michigan. She
grew up and received her schooling at Washington, D. C. They have four children,
Bertrand, Raymond, Varney and Jessie, a daughter.


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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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