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FRED G. SCHNEIDER
Among California’s native sons who
have gained success and prominence along artistic lines is numbered Fred G.
Schneider, proprietor of the Logan Studio of Stockton and recognized as one of
the leading photographers of this part of the state. He was born in San Francisco, June 17, 1880,
and when very young started out to earn a livelihood, learning the
lithographing business with the Union Lithograph Company of San Francisco,
while he acquired a knowledge of the art of photography with the firm of Boye & Haberich, who
conducted one of the leading studios in San Francisco, and Mr. Schneider
remained with them for a number of years.
In 1900 he came to Stockton, becoming connected with the Logan Studio,
which was established in 1896 and is one of the oldest enterprises of the kind
in the city. Later Mr. Schneider was
made manager of the studio and in 1913 he purchased the business, which he has
since successfully conducted. His portrait
work is of the highest order and he also devotes considerable attention to
commercial photography, being official photographer for the Sampson Tractor
Company, the California Delta Farms Company and the National Paper Products
Company. He did a considerable amount of
work for the Holt Manufacturing Company at the time their plant was being
utilized for Government purposes and for the past few years he has done all of
illustrating for the special annual edition published by the Byron Times. He copied and reproduced in exact dimensions,
from the records in the office of the county recorder, all of the plates and
maps for the Stockton Abstract & Title Company and does all branches of
copy work. He operates a moving picture
camera and is under special contract to furnish news items for Pathe and
Gaumont, while he has also taken special motion pictures to illustrate
activities in the business world. He has
taken bird’s-eye views from airplanes and in the summer of 1920 ascended to a
height of 5,750 feet with Mr. Ferris, the well-known aviator. He is constantly striving to bring his work
to a higher degree of perfection and is meeting with well-deserved success from
both a commercial and artistic viewpoint.
Mr. Schneider married Miss Lulu
Ernst, a native of Alameda, California, and a granddaughter of Fritz Boehmer, a prominent pioneer, who crossed the plains with
ox-teams, arriving in California in 1849, at the time of the gold
excitement. He engaged in freighting
from Stockton to the mines in the south, and later conducted a general store at
Columbia, in Tuolumne County. Mr. and
Mrs. Schneider have become the parents of two sons, Fred R. and George. The former is associated with his father in
business and when twenty-one years of age he joined the Delta Lodge of Masons
at Stockton, of which he is serving as master, being the youngest incumbent in
that office in the entire state. Mrs.
Schneider is an active member of the Native Daughters of the Golden West and
Mr. Schneider is identified with Stockton Parlor No. 7, Native Sons of the
Golden West. He is also connected with
the Improved Order of Red Men, with Stockton Lodge No. 218, B. P. O. E., and is
chief ranger of Stockton Court, No. 56, of the Foresters.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1632-1633. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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