1. Fred Hartsook was an American photographer and owner of a California studio chain described as "the largest photographic business in the world" at the time, who counted Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Mary Pickford, and sitting President Woodrow Wilson among his celebrity clients.
Fred Hartsook later became the owner of the Hartsook Inn, a resort in Humboldt County, and two ranches in Southern California on which he reared prized Holstein cattle.
Fred Hartsook was born on 26 October 1876 in Marion, Indiana to John Hartsook and Abbie, nee Gorham.
Fred Hartsook was born into a family of photographers and studio owners, his father and two uncles were all successful in the business and his grandfather had been the first photographer to open a studio in Virginia.
Fred Hartsook moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and married Flora "Flossie" Newcomb on 12 September 1901.
Fred Hartsook operated her own studio in Vernal, Utah in 1906.
In 1919, Fred Hartsook married Bess Hesby, who in 1915 was "Miss Liberty" at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
The success of his photographic business allowed Fred Hartsook to acquire three properties in California and take up life as a rancher and resort owner.
In 1926 the resort received its own post office and Fred Hartsook, California became an official postal designation.
On 30 September 1930, Fred Hartsook died of a heart attack in Burbank, California, shortly before his 54th birthday.
Bess Fred Hartsook outlived her husband by 46 years and operated the Fred Hartsook Inn until 1938, when it first went into receivership and then burned down again, this time due to a kitchen fire.
Fred and Bess Hartsook had three children: Helen, Frederick, and Delyte.
Fred Hartsook had a daughter, Francis, from his marriage with Flossie Newcomb.
Beyond the short-lived postal designation, the Fred Hartsook name is memorialized in a street in the San Fernando Valley, running along the former Lankershim property.
The Fred Hartsook Inn was rebuilt and survived under a succession of owners until the 1990s, when the last operator sold the property to the Save the Redwoods League after threatening to log the Giant to stave off bankruptcy.