Los Angeles County
Biographies
GEORGE
J. KLEIN
Engaged
in automobile sales work for many years before his retirement in 1958, George
J. Klein has been an Alhambra resident for nineteen years. Born in Dennison, Ohio, in 1891, Mr. Klein is
the son of Jacob P. and Emma L. (Mueller) Klein, who were both born in
Germany. George Klein has a brother and
a sister still living. His father came
to the United States as a young man and later became a machinist foreman for
the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads.
Mr. Klein’s uncle was a railroad pioneer who was an early surveyor in
California.
Coming
to California at the age of twelve, George J. Klein attended San Bernardino
schools and graduated from San Bernardino Business
College. Mr. Klein went into sales work
for several different firms, and was one of the first specialty wholesale
salesmen of chile con carne in cans; he also worked
as a machinist for the Southern Pacific Railroad in East Los Angeles for ten
years. In 1922 he became a salesman for
Ford motor cars and trucks; his last position before his retirement being in
Los Angeles in auto and truck fleet sales.
At
the First Evangelical Church in Los Angeles, on May 15, 1917, George J. Klein
married the former Miss Amy Marie Cordes.
Her father, Reverend Frederich Cordes, was the minister of the First
Evangelical Church of Los Angeles at Seventh and Olive streets, where the Bell
Telephone building now stands. Reverend
Cordes had fifty-two years of service in the California Conference of the
Evangelical Church. Mrs. Klein was born
on June 20, 1896, in San Francisco. Her
brother, Dr. Frederich Cordes, is an eye specialist in San Francisco, and is
one of the leading doctors in that field in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Klein are the parents of two
sons, and a daughter who is now deceased.
Mrs. Marian A. (Eleanor) Schmierer was born in
1922, was the mother of three children, James, Robert and Eileen; she passed
away in 1958. Herbert George Klein, a
graduate of the University of Southern California, majoring in journalism, was
Press Secretary for Richard M. Nixon while he was the Vice President of the
United States and the 1960 Republican nominee for President. Herb Klein, as he is known, was born in
1918. He formerly was news editor of the
Alhambra Post Advocate and is a past president of the Alhambra Junior Chamber
of Commerce; he is now the editor of the San Diego Union, the leading newspaper
in San Diego, California. He and his
wife, the former Marjorie Galbraith, are the parents of two daughters, Joanne
Louise and Patricia Ann, who attend school in La Jolla, California. Kenneth F. Klein was born in 1924, and is a
graduate of the University of Southern California in engineering and of
Stanford University in business administration.
He is the manager of the Minneapolis Honeywell Sales Office in San
Diego, and is the father of three sons, Lawrence, Randall and Robert, who
attend San Diego schools and an infant daughter, Nancy. His wife is the former Adelaide Wolf.
The
George Klein’s are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Alhambra. Mrs. Klein is active in church work, being a
group leader, and is interested in working with older people. Mr. and Mrs. Klein are members of the
Alhambra Camera Club. They enjoy
travelling and Mr. Klein likes to fish and to do woodworking in his hobby shop.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume &
Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel &
Temple City, by Robert P. Studer, Pages 433-434,
Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California.
1962.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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