Leo Gauggel: Shoemaker

Leo Gauggel was born 16 Oct 1845 in Germany, I found this record:



Name: Leo Gauggel
Gender:Male
Birth Date:16 Oct 1844
Baptism Date:16 Oct 1844
Baptism Place: Veringendorf, Hohenzollern, Preußen, Germany
Father: Klemens Gauggel
Mother: Franziska Rettich

Inmate #4276 Folsom Prison
Rec: 10 Jan 1898
Crime: Asst  to Rape
Term: 14 years
Discharged: 10 Nov 1906

The judge gave him the maxim sentenced but wanted to give him life, the girl was 14 years old.

Leo had a good business in San Francisco as shoe & boot maker and repair. Located at 316 Sutter. He had this business for over a decade.

He came to America in 1870.

On 19 Apr 1910 he was an inmate in the Relief Home for aged & Infirm in San Francisco at age 65.


Relief Home for Aged and Infirm

Laguna Honda first opened in 1867 as an almshouse for the Gold Rush pioneers (the ones who didn't strike it rich, anyway). The city constructed a four story wood frame building on the old San Miguel Rancho west of Twin Peaks. The large rancho site had a natural spring that fed a deep lagoon, hence the name Laguna Honda, and the almshouse grew its own food and livestock on the 87 acres. A 24-bed hospital was opened during a smallpox epidemic in 1868, and was replaced by a small asylum two years later. Buildings continued to be added to the site.

The defining event of the early part of the new century was the great earthquake and fire of 1906. The Almshouse was pressed into service to house and care for thousands of displaced San Franciscans. Now known as the Relief Home, it consolidated earthquake victims living in refugee camps scattered across the city. A new pavilion-style building was constructed, able to accommodate 1,000 people. The building was dedicated in 1909 by President Theodore Roosevelt. By 1910, the city had added another stately new building to the Relief Home. Known as Clarendon Hall, it housed 250 people, and for the first time was intended specifically for people who needed long term medical care.

The leap from Relief Home to skilled nursing facility began in earnest in the 1920’s when Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph turned over the first spade of earth for the Spanish Revival-style buildings that would become Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center Those buildings, whose Mediterranean tile work is echoed in the architecture of today’s Laguna Honda, were opened in 1926 and continued to grow in the decades that followed with the addition of new “finger wings,” the long, Florence Nightingale-style open wards that were customary at the time.

In the 1930s, Laguna Honda became a teaching center for the University of California medical school. Surgery began to be performed, and cardiograph and x-ray technology was introduced. The entryway to the main building was graced with now-classic WPA murals, which are still on display.


By 2008 Clarendon Hall was demolished for the new Laguna Honda Hospital buildings designed by Anshen+Allen Architects and Stantec Architecture, though they are not really visible from the road with all the tree coverage.

Leo died 26 Apr 1913 single and alone.

He was never married while in America, I do not know if he was in Germany.


No burial on Find A Grave