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Frank Devenny Troth Sr. (1861-1934)

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From:  John Brown, R. and James Boyd.  History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.  1922 Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL.

FRANK D. TROTH was a Pittsburgh merchant for a score of years before coming to California, and his business activities have been successfully continued in Riverside, where he is well known as a financier as president of the Title Insurance Co. and is also head of one of the leading drug firms of the city.   Mr. Troth was born Feb. 28, 1861, son of Wm. J. and Margaret (Scott) Troth.  His mother was a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia.  His father was born in Vienna, Dorchester Co., MD, and was a well known citizen of Pittsburgh, PA for many years.  He [Wm.] was in the internal revenue service in that city, and later, when Pittsburgh Safe Deposit Co. was organized, the first deposit company ever started in Pittsburgh and now one of the big financial institutions of that city, he became custodian[1871], and filled that post of duty for twenty four years, until his death.

Frank D. Troth grew up and received his early education in Pittsburgh, attending grammar and high school.  As a boy he went to work in a drug store and gained a thorough and practical knowledge of the drug business and was also granted a licese as a pharmacist by the state.  For twenty years he conducted his own store at Pittsburgh.  On coming to Riverside in 1908, Mr. Troth took up an entirely new line of business, as an associate of the Union Title and Abstract Co.  He was elected president of this company in 1912.  Later the company bough the oldest abstract business in Riverside Co., known as the Riverside Abstract Co., and continued under the name of the old organization, with Mr. Troth as president.  In 1919 the business was reincorporated as the Title Insurance Co. of Riverside, of which Mr. Troth is president.  On August 5, 1919 Mr. Troth became a partner in a drug business which for ten years had been conducted by George A. McCarty.  The new firm name is Troth & McCarty, and they have a splendid store, with a trade from all over the country and a rapidly increasing business.

Mr. Troth, both in PA and in CA has been active in republican politics.  While in PA he was secretary of the School Board at Knoxville.  He is the present park commissioner of Riverside.  He is a member of the Business Men's Assoc., the Present Day Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge at Pittsburgh, Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Los Angeles, Riverside Lodge of Elks and the Maccabees.  He is a deacon in the First Congregational Church and a member of the Choir Committee.

Mr. Troth married Elizabeth Jahn, a native of Pittsburgh, daughter of John Jahn [and Elizabeth Jordan] of Pittsburgh.  Mr. and Mrs. Troth were married in Castle Shannon in Pittsburgh.  They are the parents of a daughter and twin sons.  The daughter, Margaret, is the wife of W. H. Davis, chemist for the Standard Oil Co. at Oakland, CA.  Frank D., Jr., is a student in Pomona College, and Fred B., formerly connected with the George Reynolds Co. of Riverside, is now with the Owl Drug Co. of Los Angeles.

OBIT.  John Gabbert.  "History of Riverside City & County" Record Publishing Co., Riverside CA 1935.  [essentially the same as Brown & Boyd above]