19 Dec 2001 Husband: Ferdinand RENSKI or RUSS Born: in Poland The source for his existence - as the father of Emanuel Charles is the LDS data base, drawn from the 1880 San Francisco Census MJH: This entry is speculative!!!! and should be treated with caution ABR suggests 'We suspect that the Russ family had fled from Poland, either in the great exodus of 1831 (40,000 families) or in the late 1790's, the business of fashioning furs being passed from father to son during the transition.' M Child 1: Christian Karl Gottfried RUSS Event: 1865? auctioned off his property 1 Occupation: 1842 furrier and cap manufacturer 2 Spouse: Frederika Wilhelmina RUDIGER other name: Fredericka M Child 2: Emanuel Charles Christian RUSS died at age: 62 Born: 1795 Saxony 3,4 Died: 1857 Emigrated: 1832 to New York 5 Resided: 1847 in San Francisco California 6,7 Occupation: 1832 Silversmith 8 Occupation: Assayer, goldsmith and jewellery designer 9 Occupation: Real estate developer 10 Spouse: UNKNOWN Sources: (1) DK, 'Carl's father had perhaps urged his son to go abroad [1862], for he had fallen deeply in debt and would soon have to auction off his property', 10. (2) DK, 'citizen, houseowner, furrier and cap manufacturer at Brandis', 8. (3) 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', 228. (4) San Francisco Census, 1880. (5) ABR, 'who arrived in New York in 1832', 228. (6) ABR, 'the enigma of Emanuel Charles Christian Russ and his family arriving in San Francisco in 1847', xi. (7) 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. (8) ABR. (9) ABR. (10) 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. Name Index