Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM FRED BLASCH
WILLIAM FRED BLASCH.--A wide-awake business man whose progressive ideas, up-to-date methods, and far-sighted alertness are reflected in his prosperous business, is William Fred Blasch, proprietor of the Reliable Electrical Works, which he established in August, 1920. He was born at Feldkirchen Kanton, in the ancient empire of Austria, on April 9, 1882, and his parents were John and Mary (Zechner) Blasch. He attended the excellent schools of his native land, and there, with the thoroughness of the Old World, learned his trade of electrical mechanic, and learned it well. After having served three years in the Austrian army he resolved to cast in his lot in the land of the Stars and Stripes; so he came to this country in 1908, a finished mechanic, and his expert preparation was such as to enable him to appreciate American advancement, and rapidly to adapt himself to American progress. He spent a short time in Chicago, and then proceeded to Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained almost three years, working at this trade. Then he made his way to the Pacific Coast and in Seattle, Wash., he busied himself for about a year. In 1912 he located in San Francisco, Cal., and was in the employ of the Buzzell Electrical Works as electrical machinist, continuing with them until in the summer of 1920, when he came to Sacramento from San Francisco. Having been for eight years in the electrical field in the Bay City, he found it easy to establish here a well-equipped shop for all kinds of high-grade electrical work, original and repairing, and for the best of service to motors and his business is not alone confined to Sacramento County, but it extends into adjoining counties as well, and into Nevada. Very naturally, as the result of his prosperity here, Mr. Blasch has become deeply interested in Sacramento, town and county, and is second to none as a first-class booster, keeping himself independent and above partisan trammels in the realms of politics, ands so exerting a greater influence in favor of anything he endorses.
A man of a family, Mr. Blasch divides his social hours between his home and his business. He has faith in the country of his adoption, and California takes stock in him.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 833. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.