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__NOTOC__ Louis Fisher〔''Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials 1850–1938,'' Municipal Reference Library, March 1938, reprinted 1946〕 Vetter (1857–1923 ) was a businessman, writer and politician in Los Angeles, California, who was noted for the number of social clubs in which he was active. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council in 1898–1900. ==Personal== Vetter was born in Washington, Illinois, in 1857, and in 1886 he came to Los Angeles to help open the R.G. Dun & Co. mercantile firm. He returned two years later to manage it, and he remained until leaving the firm in 1890 to go into the insurance business. He was "prominently associated with the business and political development of the Southland" and was head of the Louis F. Vetter bonding company in the Bradbury Building.〔("Vetter Services Today," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 4, 1923, page II-2 )〕〔("Vetter a Possibility: His Name May Go Before Republican Convention for Mayor," ''Los Angeles Herald,'' October 17, 1902 )〕 In 1910 he was one of the incorporators ot the Los Angeles Milling Company,〔("New Incorporations," ''Los Angeles Herald,'' September 25, 1910 )〕 and he became its vice-president.〔("Los Angeles Milling Co. Takes Over Old Concern," ''Los Angeles Herald,'' November 3, 1910 )〕 A member of the Hollywood Blue Lodge and the Knights Templar of the Masonic brotherhood, Vetter was also in the Los Angeles Country Club and the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. He was active in the California Club, where he lived during the last ten years of his life.〔 He was once referred to as "the club man of club men, . . . a composite of sagacity and good fellowship."〔("The Gay Life of the City," ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 11, 1910, page II-16 )〕 The ''Los Angeles Times'' said of him: One of the exceptionally clever writers of the Scribes, Mr. Vetter was dramatic correspondent for the ''New York Clipper'' from 1891 to 1911() and his trenchant, though good-natured criticisms attracted attention throughout the country.〔 Vetter died January 1, 1923, in his residence at the California Club. A funeral service was conducted at St. John's Episcopal Church by Bishop Joseph H. Johnson, and cremation followed at Hollywood Cemetery. Active pallbearers were R.W. Burnham and Joseph Scott from the Sunset Club, R.W. Pridham and A.B. Cass from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and J.E. Fishburn and Remson D. Bird, president of Occidental College, from the Bohemian Club.〔 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「Louis F. Vetter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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