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FRED M. COUCH
Success in some careers is so obviously the fitting reward of the homely virtue of “sticking to it,” of steadily and patiently working your way to the top, that it could be easily represented as an ascending path with milestones in the shape of promotions to higher rank, greater responsibilities, wider spheres of action, until the summit is reached, and the traveler who has stuck to his journey patiently and untiringly comes into his own and is able to feel that he has attained his purpose and reached the goal he has set before himself when starting the journey.
F. M. Couch who now occupies the position of Vice President and General Manager of Blake, Moffitt & Towne, at Los Angeles, one of the largest wholesale paper houses on the Pacific Coast, is a native of Massachusetts, born at Springfield on May 18, 1869, the son of Daniel B. And Maria (Howard) Couch. In his early youth his parents moved to central Iowa where he received his early education, later attending the schools of Burlington, Iowa and Emporia, Kansas. After completing his schooling he went to Chicago, Illinois, where he entered the employ of the United Lead Company as an accountant. In 1903 he came to Los Angeles and soon after became identified with the old established firm of Blake, Moffitt & Towne. During the long period of service with that company he has steadily worked himself up until in 1922 he was selected for the important position he now holds. Mr. Couch has always been a willing worker for the betterment and civic development of Los Angeles, and for many years has been identified in the Los Angeles wholesale Board of Trade which years ago honored him with a year’s service as its president. He is also past president of the Los Angeles Credit Men’s Association, and former director of national Association of Credit Men. He has also been active I the Lions Club for years and through those carious activities he has made a host of friends who will always remember him for his magnetic personality. He is a member of James A. Garfield Lodge No. 566, F.& A.M.of Los Angeles, and the Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Couch married Miss Elizabeth M. Tanner at Fort Plain, N.Y., October 11, 1893. To this union were born two daughters, Esther T. Couch, now Mrs. E. E. Norton, and Lina R. Couch, now Mrs. A. W. Case.
As has well ben said by one specially familiar with his career: “He has done much to further the civic and material upbuilding of Los Angeles and such have been his life and labors as one of the world’s great army of construction workers that there is all of consistency in according him representation in this publication.”
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12-21-12 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
509-510, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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