Born in Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia (today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), Sutro, educated as an engineer, at the age of twenty arrived in the United States and in 1850, he introduced himself to William Ralston of the Bank of California and introduced his plans for de-watering and de-gassing the mine shafts of the Comstock Lode by driving a tunnel through Mount Davidson to drain the water.
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His brother was Otto Sutro, an organist, conductor and minor composer who was very prominent in musical life in Baltimore, Maryland.
It had been presented to the city of San Francisco by Adolph Sutro in 1887.
Adolph Rupp | Adolph Rickenbacker | Adolph Kussmaul | Adolph Deutsch | Adolph | Johann Adolph Hasse | Gustav Adolph Ackermann | Adolph Zukor | Adolph Wold | Adolph Tidemand | Adolph Strümpell | Adolph Lewisohn | Adolph Kolping | Adolph Fischer | Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer | Rose and Ottilie Sutro | Adolph Sutro | Adolph Ochs | Adolph Luetgert | Adolph Gottlieb | Adolph Germer | Adolph Cudell | Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation | Otto Sutro | John Adolph Shafer | Hans Adolph Brorson | Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker | Carl Adolph Agardh | August Adolph von Hennings | A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Notable guests to this historic destination hotel in the Victorian period included San Francisco Mayor James Phelan, gold mining magnate Adolph Sutro, Claus Spreckels and singer Margaret Alverson Blake.