Nevada. Governor. Balzar, Fred B., 1880-1934.

Frederick Bennett Balzar was born in Virginia City, Nevada, on June 15, 1880. His father, a native of the Canton of Valais, Switzerland, came to the United States in 1872 and became a miner. The son was educated in the public schools of Nevada and California and was graduated at the Polytechnic high school in San Francico.

His early career was varied and picturesque; it included stage driving, ranching, mining, and railroading, and in every vocation he displayed unusual character, executive ability and a pleasing personality. While employed as a conductor on the Carson and Colorado branch of the Southern Pacific, he would frequently stop his train and furnish some weary horseman with water, or allow traveling prospectors to board the train with their packs. During 1912-1914 he conducted a meat business at Mina, Nevada.

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