The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 431

ROBERT C. SCHREIBER.

Robert C. Schreiber is the secretary and treasurer of the Sunset Fruit & Produce
Company. With the development of the orchards of the Yakima valley horticulture
has become one of the chief industries of this section and has afforded splendid
opportunities for the men of strong commercial sense and enterprise, who in
handling the products of the valley have won substantial success. To this class
belongs Mr. Schreiber, whose efforts as secretary and treasurer of the Sunset
Fruit & Produce Company have made him widely known.

Mr. Schreiber was born in Chicago, May 15, 1880, a son of Arnold and Everdine
(Arends) Schreiber. About 1866 the father established his home in Chicago, where
he engaged in clerical work, and in 1881 he removed with his family to St.
Joseph, Michigan, where he owned a fruit farm. Both he and his wife there passed
away. The son acquired a public school education and also attended the Benton
Harbor College, after which he took up the profession of teaching, which he
followed for four years. He then spent two years and a half in the employ of
Marshall Field & Company in their wholesale house and afterward engaged in
general building and contracting and the manufacture of cement building blocks,
which he followed through the winter months, while in the summer seasons he was
connected with the fruit business in Michigan until January, 1909. Making his
way to the northwest, he spent a few months at Twin Falls, Idaho, and afterward
went to Montana, where he remained a short time, when he came to Washington. He
was in Spokane until November of that year when he removed to Tacoma, while
later he took up his abode at Sunnyside, Washington, where he engaged in the
contracting business until 1912. In that year he became a resident of Yakima and
was with the Yakima County Horticultural Union for one season. He devoted the
years 1913 and 1914 to the contracting business and from June, 1915, until June,
1917, was connected with the Yakima Milling Company. He then became identified
with the Sunset Fruit & Produce Company, which was incorporated on the 21st of
March, 1917, with J. A. Davis as the president, B. L. Blood as vice president
and R. C. Schreiber, secretary and treasurer. They built a warehouse sixty by
one hundred and fifty feet, one story in height with basement. It is of brick
and cement and has a storage capacity of one hundred carloads of fruit, there
being eighteen thousand feet of floor space. One of the activities receiving a
considerable portion of the company's attention is the handling and marketing of
apples, which they sell under the "Golden Glow" and "Silver Spray" brands. The
former brand applying to the extra fancy grade and the latter to the fancy
grade. They also handle other fruits under the trademark name of the Sunset
Fruit & Produce Company and handled altogether over one hundred and fifty
carloads of fruit in 1917. They operate locally and their products are also sold
all over the United States and in British Columbia. They buy in the open market
and have brokerage arrangements with eastern firms. This is a close corporation
and the business from the beginning has constantly grown and developed. From the
beginning Mr. Schreiber has been the secretary and treasurer and as one of the
chief executive officers has bent his energies to the development of the trade,
which has steadily grown and has now reached gratifying proportions.

On the 6th of November, 1912, Mr. Schreiber was married to Miss Trece A. Davis,
a daughter of J. A. Davis, of Yakima. Mr. Schreiber is a member of the Masonic
lodge at St. Joseph, Michigan. In politics he maintains an independent course,
voting for men and measures rather than for party. He belongs to the Brotherhood
of American Yeomen and also to the Christian church and in these associations
are found the rules which govern his conduct and shape his course in his
relations to his fellowmen. His sterling worth is widely acknowledged by all who
know him and his enterprise has gained him an enviable position in commercial
circles of Wapato.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.