Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Isenberg, J. Louis 1849 - 
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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

J. LOUIS ISENBERG.

    The subject of this sketch is a prominent architect and builder of Pueblo.
His ancestors were among the early settlers of Virginia, near Yorktown, but at
about the beginning of the nineteenth century they moved to the then wilderness
of Central Pennsylvania, and engaged in farming upon the borders of Blair
County, where young Isenberg was born November 15, 1849. At two years of age, he
moved with his parents to Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Penn. He was educated
in the graded public schools of that place and at Cassville Seminaiy (now a
Soldiers' Orphan Home), at Cassville, Penn. While attending the institution
above mentioned in 1864, when the Confederate army under Gen. Lee invaded
Pennsylvania, young Isenberg, with two companions, deserted school and joined
the State Militia at Harrisburg. After the war, he served an apprenticeship at
millwrighting. In 1869, he turned his attention Westward, and emigrated to
Sharon, Penn., on the extreme borders of the State, where he entered the office
of an architect and remained two years. He afterward engaged in business with
his father-in-law as contractors and builders, in which he was successful until
1873. The panic of that year swept away almost all Mr. Isenberg possessed. He
then turned his face to the "Land of the Setting Sun," and, accompanied by his
wife, arrived at Pueblo, Colo., August 7, 1873, where he located, and has since
resided. He was married, at Brookfield, Ohio, December 14, 1871, to Miss Nettie
T. Taylor. At Pueblo, he has continued in his line of contractor, architect and
builder, and has planned and constructed a number of the important buildings in
and around the city. He was the first builder in the construction of the
smelting works, also the steel works. He planned and constructed the present
Insane Asylum. Mr. Isenberg has always been a stanch advocate of and believer in
the future greatness of the Arkansas Valley and the city of his choice-Pueblo-as
his many published letters will testify, he having at various times j been the
correspondent of different Eastern journals and the newspapers of the city. In
the spring of 1880, he was elected Alderman for the city from the Fifth Ward,
and was afterward instrumental in getting the city water mains laid in his ward,
much to the gratification of his constituency at that time. He now devotes his
exclusive attention to building-has met with much success, and is well
established among the business men of Pueblo.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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