San Mateo County
Biographies
CLARENCE
WILSON (BILL) HARDER
C.
Wilson (Bill) Harder, founder and president of National Federation of
Independent Business, Inc., was born May 19, 1897, in Bay Port, Michigan, son
of John Herbert and Sabra (Lovelace) Harder. Student at Bliss Alger College, Saginaw, Michigan, 1914-15.
Mr. Harder was in the production
office of Jackson, Church, Wilcox Company, at Saginaw, Michigan, from 1915 to
1916; president of Harder Motor Company at Pittsburg, Kansas, from 1929 to
1932; district manager of United States Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, from 1932
to 1939; and district manager of United States Chamber of Commerce at San
Francisco from 1939 to 1942. He founded the National Federation of Independent
Business at Burlingame, California, in 1942 and has since been president of
same. Newspaper columnist “Small Business.”
Member of Chamber of Commerce of San
Mateo, Chamber of Commerce of Burlingame; belongs to the Episcopal Church; and
is a member of the Peninsula Country Club and the San Francisco Press and Union
League Club.
Mr. Harder married Dorothea Abeline Campbell June 12, 1926, and they have two children:
Sara Louise (Mrs. Rbt. John Murphy) and John Wilson.
Their home is in San Mateo, California, at 600 Edinburgh Street.
Offices: 212-18 California Drive, Burlingame,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 486, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
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