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HAROLD A. DRECKMAN
A registered
patent attorney, Harold A. Dreckman is at his best in
that branch of professional service and has practiced successfully at Long Beach for a period
of eight years. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, August
10, 1895, and is a son of Louis and Eleanor (Waldman) Dreckman,
the former also a native of that city, while the latter was born in Tilsit, Prussia. An expert accountant, the father devoted many
years to that line of work but is now retired.
With his family he went to Idaho in
1902, spending five years in that state, and in 1907
established his home in Fresno,
California. Subsequently he removed to Berkeley, California,
where he and his wife still reside.
Harold A. Dreckman, an only child, was a lad of seven when his
parents removed to Idaho
and his elementary education was acquired from the public schools of that
state. Following his graduation from the
Fresno High
School he matriculated in the University of California
Berkeley, where he won the Bachelor of Science
degree in engineering in 1916. As a
mechanical engineer he was afterward employed by the San Joaquin Light &
Power Company in the construction of the dam at Huntington
Lake, and when that project was
completed located in San Francisco,
where he was associated with a prominent patent attorney for a number of
years. Mr. Dreckman
mastered that branch of jurisprudence and since 1924 has practiced as a patent
attorney in Long Beach. He has offices in the Ocean Center
building and renders to his many clients the services of an expert in his
special field of endeavor.
In 1917 Mr.
Dreckman was married to Miss Inez R. Sheer, a native
of Ventura, California, and a son, Harold J., was born
to them in 1920. He is attending school
at Long Beach
and takes a keen interest in athletic sports, particularly football. The parents are members of the Episcopal
Church. Mr. Dreckman
is nominally a republican but at local elections is not bound by party ties,
supporting the candidates whom he considers best qualified for office. He belongs to the Kiwanis Club, the American
Patent Association and the American Association of Engineers. He enjoys fine music and is an accomplished
player of the violin. Although never an
aspirant for political office, he is always ready to cooperate in movements for
the advancement of his city along material, moral and cultural lines and his
professional colleagues and the general public unite in bearing testimony as to
his fine qualities of heart and mind.
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on April 6, 2012.
Source: California
of the South Vol. II,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
277-278, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Michele
Y. Larsen.
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