California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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MAX KNITTEL.� A member of the Board of City Trustees of Fire- 
baugh as well as the agent for the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph 
Company is Max Knittel a very enterprising and public-spirited man. He 
was born at Malchin, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, April 16, 1882, the 
second oldest of five children born to Wilhelm and Louise Maltzahn, farmer 
folk who are now retired and living comfortably in the vicinity of the scenes 
of their labors. Max Knittel was reared to habits of industry and thrift and 
from the time he was a boy made himself generally useful on the farm. His 
education was in the public school and the Gymnasium where he acquired a 
high standing as a student. In 1901 he entered the army serving in the 
Second Cavalry Regiment No. 18 and he was honorably discharged in Sep- 
tember, 1904. He had made up his mind to migrate to the United States so 
in March, 1905, he came to Firebaugh where a brother had preceded him in 
1898. He entered the employ of Miller & Lux and was soon made foreman, 
a position he retained until 1910 when he resigned to engage in the hotel and 
restaurant business in Firebaugh, which he has continued successfully ever 
since. He is also agent for the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Com- 
pany, as well as a member of the City Board of Trustees of Firebaugh. 
Politically he is a stanch Republican.