Butte County
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JOHN H. WALLISER
J. H. WALLISER.—The town of Chico has an enterprising and progressive business representative in J. H. Walliser. He was born in Zurich, Switzerland, January 21, 1873. His father was Jacob Walliser, a native of that country, where he followed the trade of shoemaker. The mother was Elizabeth Graber. Both parents are now deceased. Of their family of six children, J. H. Walliser was the youngest. He received his education in the grammar and high schools of his native land, and while yet a lad began his work as a shoemaker under his father.
In 1888, Mr. Walliser left Switzerland and came to the United States, stopping in Vermont, where he worked on a farm for three years. He then went to Milwaukee, Wis., and traveled all over that state and others, from north to south, and from east to west, going at last to Dakota. From there he went to Australia and New Zealand, where he spent one year. In 1905, he came to San Francisco. Mr. Walliser went East again but returned to California and worked at orcharding at Riverside for four years. He then spent two years in Oklahoma and returned at the end of that time to Fresno, Cal., and began to work at his trade. In 1912, he came to Chico and opened the Electric Shoe Shop, with J. Riedel, where he continued until October of 1916. He then sold out and started a new shop called the Modern Shoe Shop, located on Second Street, between Broadway and Main Streets. He has a full equipment of shoe-repairing machinery, including a Goodyear stitcher run by electric power, and the work turned out by Mr. Walliser is highly satisfactory in every respect.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of Butte
County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Page 1256,
Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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