San Diego County Biographies
                        
HARRY M. SCHILLER

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        One of the most popular young men of San Diego is the above-named 
gentleman. He was born in San Diego, October 7, 1861. His education was 
commenced in his native city, but in 1873 he went to San Francisco to attend the 
High School, from which he graduated in 1879. He afterward entered the employ of 
the California Southern Railroad Company; was topographer with the first corps 
of surveyors who went into the field for that company, and remained in their 
employ nearly three years. He then accepted a situation with Blockman & Smith, 
as head bookkeeper, for two and a half years, and held the same position with 
Hamilton & Co., for the same length of time, which he resigned to accept a 
position with the International Company, of Mexico, as their Custom-House clerk 
and purchasing agent, a position of trust and responsibility, for which his 
thorough knowledge of the Spanish and German languages made him well qualified 
to fill, and which he held until the English syndicate took charge of the 
affairs of that company. Mr. Schiller has served as Deputy County Assessor, 
Deputy City Clerk, and is now Deputy County Clerk under M. D. Hamilton. He was a 
charter member of the San Diego City Guard, Company B, joining the independent 
company in 1881. He held the office of Sergeant for the whole time until he was 
elected First Lieutenant, in January, 1888, which office he held until his 
election to the Captaincy, on February 14, 1890. He is the sitting Past 
Chancellor of San Diego Lodge, No. 28, Knights of Pythias, and also President of 
San Diego Parlor, No. 108, Native Sons of the Golden West.
        He was married in San Francisco, February 11, 1890, to Miss Bertha Gans, 
a well-known and popular young lady of that city.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  247