Tribolet, Gottlieb


BORN: 1842
BORN IN: Switzerland
DIED: 19210204
AGED: 79
DEATH LOCATION: Vera Ave., Redwood City

OCCUPATION: Retired

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  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
  • 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
  • 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
  • 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1912 The Titanic sank
  • 1920 Prohibition begins
  • 1920 Women get to vote
  • 1920 The Roaring 20's

OBITUARY ---------------

GOTTLIEB TRIBOLET

Redwood City Standard

February 10, 1921

Gottlieb Tribolet, one of the oldest pioneer residents of Redwood City and former hotel keeper, passed away last Friday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Nelson, on Vera Street. He had been ill for sometime and death was due to old age. The deceased was a native of Switzerland and was 81 years of age. He came to Redwood in the early eighties and after being employed for a short time at the tannery of S.H. Frank & Co, engaged in the hotel business. He conducted the Farmer’s Home on Broadway, which, under the management of himself and wife, became known as one of the best eating places on the peninsula. The wife passed away about three years ago, since which time the husband had made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Nelson. Mr. Tribolet was highly esteemed in the community being a man of sterling qualities and honest and upright in all his dealings.

He is survived by the following children, Mrs. Arthur Nelson, Henry, Fred, Edward, John, and William Tribolet.

The funeral was held Sunday afternoon from the parlors of James Crowe Undertaking Co on Webster Street. Rev. E. MacNuhy of the St. Peters Church conducted the services. Many old time friends attending the funeral. The members of Metamora Tribe No 24 Impd ORM of which the deceased was a member turned out in a body. The interment was in Union Cemetery.

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