San Mateo-Los Angeles-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Grohnert, Alfred F. 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)

ALFRED F. GROHNERT

   The pioneer sheet metal concern in Burlingame is that of Alfred F. Grohnert,
who operates under the name of the Burlingame Sheet Metal & Machine Works, and
who during the twenty years that he has been a representative of industrial
activity here, has done the sheet metal work on the majority of the better class
of buildings and homes over a large radius of surrounding country. Mr. Grohnert
was born near Berlin, Germany, and when a babe in arms was brought to the United
States by his parents, who first located in Saginaw, Michigan, but later went to
Grand Rapids, that state. There he secured a good education in the public
schools and afterward learned the trade of a sheet metal worker. In 1903 he went
to Pasadena, California, where he worked for Munger & Munger, the Dunn Company
and the Long Beach Hardware Company. In 1906 he removed to San Francisco, where
he spent about a year with Joseph Cronan, who operated sheet metal works, and in
1907 came to Burlingame, where he engaged in business on his own account, being
the first in that line of work here, and his first shop was in a barn.
Increasing business demanding more room, he moved to a building on Lorton
avenue, from which he went to Burlingame avenue, and finally came to his present
excellent building, which he owns, at 108 California street. From the beginning
the business has enjoyed a steady and continuous growth and he has done some of
the best work to be found in this locality, as he employs none but expert
workmen and is insistent upon high class work on every job. Among his many
contracts in this vicinity were the White Tile Front building, the Bourne
building, the Portola Hotel, the Post Office block, the Lorton block, the first
theater built here, the Oscar Cooper and D. T. Murphy residences, the Reddington
house, the Polo clubhouse, homes in the Lyon and Hoag tracts, the Cole and
Francis Caroline residences, the Roman Catholic church, and the Oak Grove and
Howard Avenue schools. A progressive and wide-awake gentleman, he has left a
deep impress on the business circles of the community and his fair methods have
earned for him the confidence of all who have dealt with him. Mr. Grohnert is a
member of Burlingame Lodge, No. 400, A. F. & A. M.; San Francisco Consistory, A.
A. S. R.; Islam Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of San Francisco, and the Sciots.
Genial and unassuming in manner, he has won an enviable place in public esteem,
and his friends are in number as his acquaintances.


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HISTORY
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VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928


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