Pomin Family Papers

The Pomin Family emigrated from the Alsace-Loraine region of Germany in the late 1850s or early 1860s. They eventually settled in Tahoe City, California in 1862 where the family worked and owned property.

John Ernest Pomin (1855-1919), who was born in Germany, married Jennie Fick (1855-1934) in 1875 in Sacramento, California. They had five children: Margaret (1876-1937), Ernest Henry (1878-1970), Frank (1879-1935), Ida (1881-1953), and Janet (1884-1958). Ernest John worked for the Bliss family as the captain of the Steamer Tahoe from 1890 until he retired in 1917. Ernest Henry (nicknamed Ernie) also worked for the Bliss family as the chief machinist for the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Co., the narrow gauge railroad that ran between Tahoe City and Truckee, California. Frank, the second son, owned and operated Pomins, a vacation resort at Lake Tahoe, as well as acted as the first postmaster of the Lake Tahoe Basin post office (established in 1914 or 1915 and discontinued in 1942).

Other Pomin family memebers include: Northrup Mathewson Felter (1883-1957), wife of Ernest Henry; Harry M. (1903-1974), eldest son of Ernest Henry; Stanley, Sr. (1905-1992), yougest son of Ernest Henry; Marian E. Snyder (1881-1936), wife of Frank; Herbert Sydney Watson (1882-1953), husband of Janet; William C. (1876-1931); Etta Bray (1877-1957), wife of William C.; Nellie (1912-?); and Vivian (1911-1996).