San Francisco County
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JOHN B.
STEINWEDEN
Liberal collegiate training prepared John B. Steinweden for his chosen calling and his capability is attested in the fact that he has been selected for the important post of agricultural commissioner of San Francisco county although but twenty-seven years of age. He was born in Concord, Contra Costa county, California, January 25, 1904, and pursued his education in the schools of Riverside and Tulare counties, graduating from the Lindsay high school. In Stanford University he took up the study of entomology with related courses, working his way through that institution, from which he was graduated in 1927, and in 1928 received from his alma mater the Master’s degree.
He was first associated with the United States department of Agriculture in Orange county, California, and in 1928 was made deputy agricultural inspector in San Francisco county, becoming agricultural inspector for the county in the following year. On the 10th of August, 1931, he was appointed agricultural commissioner of the county and is the youngest man to hold this office in the state of California. Mr. Steinweden has made an intensive study of scale insects and his published papers on that subject are considered authoritative. He has also contributed biographical abstracts for the Bulletin, which is issued monthly by the California department of agriculture and contains information of great value to the farmers of this state. His duties comprise the inspection of bulbs, nursery stock and all fruit shipped out of San Francisco county. In his district there are seventy-five nurseries and over these he exercises pest control. Mr. Steinweden is a member of the American Entomological Society, the American Association of Economic Entomology and the Pan-Pacific Entomologists Society. He belongs to the Stanford Alumi Club and his college fraternity is Sigma Xi. He has accomplished much for one of his years and his talents, natural and acquired, will undoubtedly carry him far in his chosen field of usefulness.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of
San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1931. Vol. 2 Pages 162-163.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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