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Biographies
FRITZ OSCAR WALLSCHLAEGER
WALLSCHLAEGER, FRITZ OSCAR,
Secretary, Citrus Protective League, Los Angeles, California, was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 30, 1888, the son of Henry Wallschlaeger,
Jr., and Minnie H. (Meyer) Wallschlaeger.
Mr. Wallschlaeger received his
primary education in Trinity Church School of Milwaukee and later attended the
public schools of the same city, but left when he was fifteen years of age and
entered the employ of his father in the woodworking business.
From 1904 to 1908 Mr. Wallschlaeger
worked for several firms in Milwaukee, serving in the positions of officeboy, stenographer, clerk and shipping clerk, and in
August, 1908, he went to Washington, D. C., as stenographer in the
Department of Agriculture. He left the departmnet (sic)
as an expert in Farm Accounting, in December, 1910.
It was while in the employ of the Government that Mr. Wallschlaeger became acquainted with
G. Harold Powell, at that time Acting Chief of the Bureau of Plant
Industry, and he resigned his position with the Government to join
Mr. Powell in Los Angeles as his assistant in the Citrus Protective
League, of which he was Secretary and Manager. Mr. Wallschlaeger
remained in that capacity until September 1, 1912, when he succeeded
Mr. Powell as Secretary of the Citrus Protective League, the latter having
taken up another office.
The Citrus Protective League is a voluntary organization
of orange and lemon growers in California and has come to be one of the most
important adjuncts of the industry, representing an invested capital of
approximately $200,000,000 and ten thousand growers. It has been very effectual
in the protection of the growers and shippers in the matter of railroad rates
and tariff legislation, and the problems before it are of great importance.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
19 August 2011.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 730, International News Service,
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Marie Hassard.
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