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Fred Lind Alles (1851–1945) was a businessman and civic leader in Los Angeles, California, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving as secretary or other officer for various committees and for the National Irrigation Congress. ==Professional life== Lind was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 1851, and attended the public schools of Pitt Township between 1857 and 1861. He entered the printing business as a "kid press feeder" with the ''Pittsburgh Post'' at age about 13 in 1864, followed by stints at the ''Pittsburgh Dispatch'' and the ''Workingman's Advocate,'' also in Pittsburgh.〔(Fred Lind Alles, RootsWeb.com )〕〔 He moved to Chicago in 1868, where he was an office worker at the ''Religio-Philosophical Journal,'' being then promoted to foreman and writer. During this time, he attended a public school in Saint Charles, Illinois. He moved in 1872 to Sparta, Illinois, where he was the publisher of the ''Sparta Plain Dealer.'' In 1874 he was the editor of the Belleville, Illinois, ''Advocate,'' and he worked for the ''Sentinel'' in Pontiac, Illinois, from 1875 to 1883.〔 Lind moved to Ontario, California, in 1883, where he was president of the San Antonio Water Company in 1884 and 1885. Between 1884 and 1888 he was the publisher of ''Rural Californian'' magazine. In 1887, to recover his health, he made a trip to Alaska, accompanied by Senators George Graham Vest of Missouri, Charles B. Farwell of Illinois and J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania, and returned "weighing fourteen pounds more than when I started."〔("Alaska: Fred L. Alles Tells About His Hyperborean Trip," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 13, 1887, page 2 )〕 In 1889 he became temporary managing editor of the ''Riverside Press and Horticulturalist,'' but the next year he sold his Riverside County orange grove and moved back to Los Angeles, where he became secretary and general manager of the Los Angeles Printing Company between 1890 and 1902.〔 In 1890, a strike by printers paralyzed the composing rooms of all the Los Angeles newspapers. Alles rounded up his print shop employees and dashed to the rescue, taking personal charge of the composing room of The Times and putting two of his foremen in charge of printing The Tribune and the Herald. One of his proudest possessions (1941 ) is a letter from Gen. Harrison Gray Otis thanking him for his efforts, "without which it would have been necessary for The Times to temporarily suspend publication.〔 In March 1897 he became business manager of the ''Los Angeles Express,''〔("The New Regime," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 16, 1897, page 7 )〕 and in 1901 he established his own printing business, which he maintained until 1905.〔〔("Southern Californian Fair at Chicago," ''Los Angeles Times,'' April 26, 1885, page 1 )〕〔("News and Business," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 1, 1902, page 16 )〕〔("Personal News," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 16, 1889, page 8 )〕 Alles was honored in January 1941 for a his life's work when a portrait of him by artist Arthur Cahill was unveiled in Los Angeles's prestigious California Club.〔("Portrait Honors Fred Lind Alles," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 13, 1941, page 8 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Lind Alles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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