Carson City
Frank J. Steinmetz
Biography
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Carson City Frank J. Steinmetz Biography |
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FRANK J. STEINMETZ, one of the progressive young business men of Carson City, Nevada, and the oldest druggist in the place, was born in Sutter Creek, Amador county, California, February 10, 1862. He comes of German and English ancestry. His father, Jacob Steinmetz, was born in Germany and came to the United States in the year 1847, when fifteen years of age. In 1854 he went to California and located in Amador county. His trade was that of a shoemaker, but he afterwards became a manufacturer of harness. Later he became a merchant, and now makes his home in Warm Springs, Alameda county, California. In the year 1861 he married Miss Helen S. Hubbell, a native of Ohio and of English ancestry. They are the parents of four children, of whom Frank J. is the eldest and the only one residing in Nevada.
Mr. Steinmetz received his education in the common schools of California. At the age of seventeen years he entered the drug business in Yolo county, California. In the spring of 1882 he went to San Francisco, where he served as a clerk in a drug store and attended the College of Pharmacy. He removed to Carson City in June. 1885, where he has resided almost continuously since. Eight years later he became proprietor of the store where he is now doing business, and has since then by his honorable methods built up a valuable trade.
On February 15, 1896, he was married to Miss Lola F. Glidden, of San Francisco, the second daughter of A. K. P. and Mary H. Glidden. They have one child, Ruth Lolita. Mr. Steinmetz is cne of the five members of the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy, and upon its organization was elected its secretary, which office he still holds. He is a most worthy and prominent member of the Masonic order, both blue lodge and chapter, the Eastern Star and the Knights of Pythias. In his political affiliations he is a Republican.
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