Fred Allhoff
Fred Allhoff | |
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| Born | Christopher Frederick Allhoff June 11, 1904 Dayton, Ohio, United States |
| Died | November 11, 1988 (aged 84) Dade County, Florida, U.S. |
Fred Allhoff (June 11, 1904 – November 11, 1988) was an American magazine writer best known for his Liberty pieces in the 1930s and 1940s. The corruption exposé "The Lid Off Los Angeles" (1939) is considered influential in the history of that city, another crime series was adapted into an Edward G. Robinson film, and his speculative fiction serial Lightning in the Night (1940) is considered a significant and early example of the hypothetical Axis victory in World War II subgenre.
Biography
[edit]Allhoff was born Charles Frederick Allhoff in Dayton, Ohio in 1904.[1] He was an only child, his father was a bookkeeper for a printing company,[2] and then an insurance agent.[3] His mother died when he was young and his maternal aunt moved in to help raise him.[3] In 1930, at age 25, Fred Allhoff was employed as a newspaper reporter in Dayton[4] and/or Cleveland, Ohio.[5] Allhoff got married in 1931 in New York City.[6] A 1936 article series for Liberty called "Tracking New York's Crime Barons" became the 1938 Edward G. Robinson picture I Am the Law.[7] In 1939 he cowrote the six-part corruption exposé "The Lid Off Los Angeles"[8] [9] and in 1940 he wrote the 13-part "What if Hitler won?" series "Lightning in the Night", both for Liberty.[10] "The Lid Off Los Angeles" triggered a libel lawsuit that was settled out of court in 1943.[11]
Allhoff and his wife lived on Long Island in 1940; his work was "writer".[12] Allhoff's wife Pauline died of illness in New York in 1944.[13] Allhoff moved to Coral Gables, Florida in 1945, where he continued to work as a writer.[14] Around 1948, Allhoff and his new wife bought 16 acres near the Caloosahatchee River.[15] In 1950, he was living in Lee, Florida, with his second wife, and working as a fiction writer.[16] He may have gone into the real estate business in Miami in the 1960s.[17] Lightning in the Night was republished in book form in 1979.[18] Allhoff died in Florida in 1988.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ Ohio, County Births, 1841–2003 - FamilySearch - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN71-YL5 Entry for Charles Frederick Allhoff and Charles G. Allhoff, 1904.
- ^ United States Census, 1910 - FamilySearch -https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLF6-6BC - Entry for Charles G Allhoff and Sarah E Allhoff, 1910.
- ^ a b "United States Census, 1920 - FamilySearch -https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDT2-967 Entry for Charls G Allhoff and C Frederick Allhoff, 1920.
- ^ "United States Census, 1930" FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4H8-VYN Entry for Charles G Allhoff and Fred C Allhoff, 1930.
- ^ "United States Census, 1930 FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4QM-GTK - Entry for William H Byron and Elsie Byron, 1930.
- ^ "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938" FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24D4-PSD Entry for Charles F. Allhoff and Pauline Gertrude Engelhard, 1 Aug 1931.
- ^ Goble, Alan (2011-09-08). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 806. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- ^ Ewing, Russell H. (1940). County Government and Administration: A Manual and Syllabus. School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, University of Denver. p. 34.
- ^ Coffey, Daina Kathleen. "Build a Fence Around Los Angeles": Labor, Unemployment, and Survival in the City of Angels, 1929-1941 (Thesis). The University of Chicago. p. 229.
- ^ "SFE: Allhoff, Fred". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
- ^ "Shaw and Clinton Litigation Ended". The Los Angeles Times. 1943-04-29. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-07-03.
- ^ United States Census, 1940, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3BM-M6J , Entry for Frederick Allhoff and Pauline Allhoff, 1940.
- ^ "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WTJ-NN1 Fred Allhoff in entry for Pauline A Engelhard Allhoff, 1944.
- ^ "Florida State Census, 1945", FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNNS-NF5, Entry for Fred Allhoff, 1945.
- ^ "25 Years Ago". News-Press. 1973-02-04. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "United States Census, 1950, FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6X24-S3Q1 Entry for Margaret Allhoff and Fred Allhoff, April 17, 1950.
- ^ "Announcing Silver Palm Estates". The Miami Herald. 1960-02-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "BOOKS: What if Adolf Hitler had defeated the British?". The Morning News. 1979-03-25. p. 102. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
- ^ Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 - FamilySearch - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVNW-C5S - Charles Frederick Allhoff, 11 Nov 1988; from "Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing vol. , certificate number 112331, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, Jacksonville.