Emanuel Charles Christian RUSS - Christiana GOERING

25 Jun 2008

Husband: Emanuel Charles Christian RUSS German name Immanuel Carl Christian RUSS died at age: 62
Born: 10 Mar 1795 Hildburghausen, Saxony [treat with caution] 1,2,3
Died: 4 Jun 1857 San Francisco CA 3
Emigrated: 1832 to New York 4
Resided: 1847 in San Francisco CA 5,6
Occupation: 1832 Silversmith 7
Occupation: Assayer, goldsmith and jewellery designer 7
Occupation: Real estate developer 8
Father: Ferdinand Renski RUSS
Mother: UNKNOWN

Wife: Christiana GOERING died at age: 77
Married: 1823 in Saxony 9
Born: 4 Apr 1802 in Saxony 10,3
Died: 15 Feb 1880 in San Francisco CA 3
Father: Christian GOERING
Mother: UNKNOWN

F Child 1: Elizabeth RUSS died at age: 62
Born: 1824 in Germany 3
Died: 1886 in Germany 3
Spouse: Frederick MEBIUS
M Child 2: Adolphus Gustavus RUSS died at age: 76
Born: 19 Jan 1826 in Saxony 10,3
Occupation: 1880 Capitalist 10
Died: 4 Aug 1902 in San Francisco CA 3
Census: 1880 in San Francisco 11
Spouse: Francoise J SIMON Also known as Francis J SIMON 9b. 25 Aug 1832 d. 1896
Married: 13 Nov 1851 in San Francisco CA 9
M Child 3: Charles Christian Edward RUSS died at age: 66
Born: 28 Jan 1828 in Saxony 10,3
Retirement: 1880 Retired merchant 10
Resided: 1880 in San Francisco CA
Died: 5 Jan 1895 in San Francisco CA 3
Resided: 1860's in Hesse [?] 12
Spouse: Elizabeth REICHARDT b. 1836
F Child 4: Caroline RUSS
Born: 1830 in Saxony 3
Died: 30 July 1878 in San Francisco CA 3
M Child 5: Augustus Philip RUSS died at age: 67
Born: 1832 in Saxony 3
Died: 1899 in Dresden 3
Spouse: Anna Maria RICHTER
F Child 6: Frederick RUSS died at age: 87
Born: 1837 in Bergen Hill,Hudson County, NJ 9
Died: 29 Aug 1924 in San Francisco CA 9
Spouse: Marie KOHL b. 1848 d. 11 Oct 1915
M Child 7: Henry B RUSS died at age: 64
Born: 25 Sep 1840 in Mt Hope New York 10,3
Died: 19 Mar 1905 in San Francisco CA 3
Occupation: 1880 Capitalist 10
Resided: 1880 in San Francisco CA 13
Spouse: Josephine HAMMERSMITH d. 23 Dec 1875
Married: 1865 14
Spouse: Anna L STEVENS b. 1859
Married: 1879 14
F Child 8: Harriet RUSS
Died: 1847 in San Francisco CA 3
Resided: in San Francisco CA 15
F Child 9: Emaline RUSS
Born: 1845 in Bergen Hill NY 3
Spouse: Freederick GUTZKOW
F Child 10: Bertha Louise Adelia RUSS died at age: 78
Born: 1846 in Bergen Hill NY 3
Died: 1924 3
Spouse: Frederick Otto WEGENER

Sources:
(1) ABR, 'we are not quite sure about the history of the Russ family before
Grandfather Karl, but the European practice of repeating Christian names for
male children in each succeeding generation leads us to believe that we are
directly related to Emanuel Christian Russ', [ABR p 229] 'If Emanuel Charles was
such a paragon,why have we not immediately stumbled upon evidence of his
election to public office in an age where upstanding citizens of good financial
standing were much sought after? Why, for instance, have we not come across any
reference to the marriages of his four daughters and two sons into a society
whose upper echelon boundaries were most jealously protected and nurtured? Did
the boys follow the gold fever into Alaska, and from thence into Canada? Was
their mother, a German or Polish lady who had already travelled halfway round
the world in sailing ships, so self-effacing that her name appears in none of
the surviving documents? We don't think so!'
San Francisco Museum - Street Names Directory: "Russ Street - J. C. Christian
Russ: jeweler, owner of Montgomery Street land
"After losing by theft the entire stock of his jewelry store in New York City,
Russ and his three sons enlisted as privates in Stevenson's regiment. The
family of twelve arrived with him in San Francisco on the U.S. Transport Loo
Choo, in March 1847. On arrival they purchased several lots on Montgomery
Street and built a house between Pine and Bush, then well south of San Francisco
proper. They opened a jewelry store and during the gold rush ran an assay
office. They built over thirty shacks on their land which they rented. The
family also built a hotel near the land now occupied by the Russ Building"
[www.sfmuseum.org/street/stnames5.html]

"Harriet Street - named to honor
Harriet Russ, the daughter of Immanuel Charles Christian Russ, who owned the
amusement park, Russ Gardens, situated nearby."
[www.calhist.org/Support_Info/Exhibitions.htmld/Current.html
d/SOMA-StreetNames.htmld]
May 1 1853 "J. C. Christian Russ invited the Germans in town to celebrate May
Day at his property, Russ Gardens, at Sixth and Harrison Streets"
[www.sfmuseum.org/hist/chron3.html]
Pacific Coast Review Nov 1952: 'Emanuel Charles Christian Russ came to San
Francisco in March of 1847 and the week he arrived he bought the land on
Montgomery Street reaching from Pine to Bush, for seventy-five dollars. An
industrious man and a wise parent of at least nine children, he had sublime
faith in the destiny of San Francisco. He died before the city had come into
its own, but through six generations the family of the distinguished patriarch
has carried on his spirit.
He had been born in Germany, of Polish ancestry, his parents having been exiled
from Poland when it was conquered by Russia. Following the trade of
silversmith, Russ migrated to New York in 1832. He came to San Francisco by
clipper ship in 1847, after a long and tortuous voyage around the
Cape.'
"Daughters of CA Pioneers". One of the contributors was Jane V. R.
Bernasconi, who Eleanor Gordon believes is the 3x great granddaughter of I.C.C.
Russ.

Her article begins, "Emanuel Charles Christian Russ (later to be
known as I.C.C. Russ) was born in Hildburghausen, Duchy of Saxe-Meinengen,
Germany in
1795. The family was of Polish ancestry, the noble name "Rienski" having been
changed to "Russ" when his parents fled Poland at a time of continuous
turmoil.", 228.
(2) San Francisco Census, National Cyclopedia of American Biography vol7 NY
[1892] 'Imanuel Christian Charles Russ 1795 - 1857'
IF he is the same man!, 1880.
(3) Kate Jennings.
(4) ABR, 'who arrived in New York in 1832', 228.
(5) ABR, 'the enigma of Emanuel Charles Christian Russ and his family arriving in
San Francisco in 1847', xi.
(6) ABR, 'in 1847, he and his family sailed into San Francisco Bay aboard the
'Loo Choo', whose timbers he purchased to build his first piece of real estate
on Montgomery Street. Here they established a business hierarchy of some thirty
shacks, rented out to various tradesmen, to service the growing city', 228.
(7) ABR.
(8) ABR, 'Emanuel Charles is known to have built an hotel, "The American" on
Montgomery Street - now the centre of the downtown financial district - on the
site of which now stands the famous 31-storey Russ Building..........also built
a large mansion in what was then the suburbs - at the corner of Sixth and
Harrison, the landscaped gardens of which were later donated to the City as a
park.....The current [1989] Russ Building, on the site of his original land
purchased for the sum of $37.50, we believe may have been purchased by Walter
Shorenstein for $660 Million when the original 99 year lease ran out', 228.
(9) LDS - familysearch.org.
(10) San Francisco Census, 1880.
(11) San Francisco Census, One living in female servant M Fenstermacher [aged 19
from CA], 1880.
(12) San Francisco Census, MJH: as their two younger children were born in Hesse,
did the family move back to Germany in the 1860's?
In 1880 he had one living in female servant Mary J Fuchs [aged 19 from
CA with German parents]
(13) San Francisco Census, Two living in servants - Sophie Ehlers [aged 25 from
Hamburg] cook and M Oelsen [aged 19 from Bremen] nurse, 1880.
(14) San Francisco Census.
(15) San Francisco Census, San Francisco Museum - Street Names Directory:

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