And it is a rare Reno Adams Express. The office (at least during this period) was only open a few months!
Below one can find the new safe combination for the Adams Express Safe housed in Reno, Nevada. The Western Pacific had just laid their branch line into Reno and opened an office using Adams Express. Mr. J. I. Allenbach was given management over this new office.
However, he only held the position for a few months as this office was combined with another express office and Mr. Allenbach was quickly out of work.
J. I. Allenbach: Who is Mr. Allenbach? Jacob Allenbach was born in March of 1866 in California. He moved to Nevada as a young lad as his family settled at Carson City. They would move to Genoa where they where fixtures in the community for decades.
Jake, as the paper referred to him, started his career working on the railroad. With Carson City as a home I assume it must have been the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
In 1884 he can be found in Reno and started working for Wells Fargo. He worked there for twenty-two years before retiring to start his own business. The Reno newspaper lamented his leaving. With his years of experience he would be hard to replace.
Below one can find the new safe combination for the Adams Express Safe housed in Reno, Nevada. The Western Pacific had just laid their branch line into Reno and opened an office using Adams Express. Mr. J. I. Allenbach was given management over this new office.
However, he only held the position for a few months as this office was combined with another express office and Mr. Allenbach was quickly out of work.
J. I. Allenbach: Who is Mr. Allenbach? Jacob Allenbach was born in March of 1866 in California. He moved to Nevada as a young lad as his family settled at Carson City. They would move to Genoa where they where fixtures in the community for decades.
Jake, as the paper referred to him, started his career working on the railroad. With Carson City as a home I assume it must have been the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.
In 1884 he can be found in Reno and started working for Wells Fargo. He worked there for twenty-two years before retiring to start his own business. The Reno newspaper lamented his leaving. With his years of experience he would be hard to replace.
He first tried working in the wholesale fruit market upon retiring in 1906.
In 1909 he started a vacuum cleaning business. By 1910 he seems to have added a second job as manager of a fuel company. As such he would get the contract to install oil burners in the Capitol in 1914. In 1915 he would run for city council He only gathered 26 votes. In 1916 an article in the Reno newspaper has him in Carson City “scaring up customers” for his vacuum cleaning work. In 1918 he went to work for the Adams Express Company. This change of safe combinations must have happened as he took over the job. He would only be here a few months since Adams was combined with another Express (Western Pacific?) On July 14, 1918, just about one month after this paper, his mother was burned to death in her home in Genoa. She was 90 years old. (The paper says that her family actually owned the Muller Hotel in Carson City in 1860. I think they may have just been living there.) Jake I. Allenback would pass away on October 12, 1919 from complications of a stomach surgery. 1. United States Census Records 2. Reno Evening Gazette 3. Nevada State Journal |