Historical California Stone Carvers, Stone Cutters, & Monument Dealers

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Frank Nicholas FISH, Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.

Place of birth: Azores - (13) ; Portugal - (8)

Date of birth: 47 (sic)

Date of death: (unknown)

(According to Leeanna Rossi, Frank Nicholas Fish was the brother of Anthony Nicholas Fish and Morris Nicholas Fish)

EMPLOYMENT:

11/2/1868 - Naturalized in Sacramento - (13)

8/1872 - Notice of Bid: Marble tiling - (217); proposal by F. Fish - (220)

4/14/1873 - Frank N. Fish Marble Works, 252 K (with Anthony Fish) - (20)

9/28/1873 - Married Anna Marie Goeth - (24)

1873 - Advertisement: “Frank N. Fish Marble Works, manufacturer of Monuments, Tombstones, Mantles, Bureau Tops, Plumbers’ Slabs, etc. 252 K St (near ninth), Sacramento.” - (94, 20) (4/14/1873)

1874 - Frank N. Fish Marble Works, 252 K (with Anthony Fish); residence 12 I/J (with Anthony Fish) - (33)

5/5/1874 - Advertisement: “Sacramento Marble Works. Monuments, Tombstones, Mantels, Bureau Tops, Plumbers Slabs, etc., 252 K Street near 9th.” - (116)

1876 - “OUR INDUSTRY - MARBLE WORKS. F. N. Fish, at 252 K street, has been established a number of years in Sacramento, and has made some handsome specimens of marble work. He also works up considerable of the California marble from Indian Diggings.” - (125)

1876 - State Fair displayed sculpture, statuary and busts in plaster, collection of marble works; won best exhibit of sculpture, best display of busts in plaster; premium $50.00 - (188)

1878 - State Fair displayed California marble, statuary, marble works, sculpture; won best display California marble, best exhibit sculpture, best collection of marble works; premium (A & F) $95.00 - (189)

1879 - Aitken & Fish Pioneer Marble Works, 177 K (Morris Fish & Anthony Fish), res L 9/10 - (34)

1879 - State Fair displayed California marble, dressed stone collection of marble works, sculpture, plaster statuary and busts; won best dressed stone, best display California marble, best collection of marble works; premium (A & F) $45.13 - (190)

1880 - Aitken & Fish Pioneer Marble Works, 617 K, employs 8 men and uses annually about 50 tons of marble and 35 tons of granite - (46)

1880 - Business value: $12,000; greatest number of employees: 12; males over 16: 8; average wage per day skilled: $3.00; unskilled: $2.00; number of hours per day May-November: 10; November-May: 9; total wages: $6240; value of material: $6000; value of production: $20,000 - (48)

12/24/1880 - Advertisement: “MARBLE WORKS. Can stored urn or animated bust, back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Ask Gray in his ‘Elegy in the Country Chruchyard’ Everyone knows that the answer to that would be - that the lamp of life which is out is out forever. Yet there is a pleasure to the living in bringing back fond recollections of the dead, in having some memento of them in sight to remind them of those who have gone before, in tending to their graves, in seeing that white marble lifts its pure head to the sky, while the breeze is whispering in the trees, the flowers warming in the sun, and the birds caroling in the air. There can be no more appropriate remembrance of the dead than a tasteful monument - a token of love - framed by skilled artisans out of the beautiful marble kept by Aitken & Fish, No. 617 K Street, bet Sixth and Seventh.” - (113)

1880 - State Fair displayed California marble, carved mantle; won best collection of marble works, best carved mantle; premium (A & F) $3.00 - (191)

2/2/1882 - Perm. Improvement to Capitol Grounds $4.00 - (153)

1882 - State Fair displayed California marble work, marbleized slate mantles, parlor grate; won best collection of marble works, best marbleized slate mantle, best parlor grate; premium (A & F) $33.00 - (193)

1882-1884 - Aitken & Fish Pioneer Marble & Granite Works, 617 K (with Anthony Fish, Morris Fish, George Holsberg) - (129, 130, 19)

1883 - State Fair displayed California marble work, marbleized slate mantles, parlor grate; won best marbleized slate mantle, best parlor grate; premium (A & F) $33.00 - (194)

1885-1886 - Traveling agent, with Andrew Aitken, 617 K (with Anthony Fish and Morris Fish) - (131)

1888-1889 - Traveling salesman - (132)

1889-1890 - Residence 1416 12th - (13, 35)

1889-1892 - Traveler for W. H. McCormick of San Francisco - (35, 36)

1891-1892 - Residence 1116 12 th - (36)

1892-1893 - Marble cutter in San Francisco - (133)

VITAL STATISTICS:

Address: 1879 - (80) 12 N/O - (34) ; 1884 - (85); 715 M (with Anthony Fish) - (19)

Ages: 72/22 - (9), 73/22 - (10), 79/26 - (11), 82/34 - (12), 90/43 - (13)

Other Information: Homestead 11/12 N/O valued $2500 - (25)

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