Jacob Kuhrts
He had the first 2-story brick building constructed in downtown Los Angeles (see picture below dated 1867) which also served as the family compound, retail store, and upstairs rental units.He died at the age of ninety-three in his home, 1103 Arapahoe Street in today's Pico-Union District, on January 29, 1926, and funeral services were conducted at the Masonic Temple, with interment following in Inglewood Park Cemetery.He said that he tried to attend a dance in the Arcadia block but he was turned away at the door because the management would not admit any "desperadoes in here, for this is a German ball, and people have to dress decently.[3][5][6] Jacob's son George J. Kuhrts would later be hired by Henry Huntington as the chief engineer and manager of LARy, the Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Cars).He was one of the first to experience the 1849 Gold Rush in Placer County, and remained there until 1857,[6] when he traveled with John Searles from San Francisco with a mule team for the Slate Range near Death Valley.[7] After settling in Los Angeles, he worked in a lumberyard until 1865, and in that year or in 1866 he opened a retail store at First and Spring Streets (later the site of the Schumacher Block), moving to First and Main in 1870.
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