Polk County FlArchives Biographies.....CHISELBROOK, FRED October 8, 1887 - 
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Author: The History of Florida:  Past & Present, The Lewis Publishing Co., 1923,  Vol. III pg.84

     CHISELBROOK, FRED is principal and owner of the Florida Commercial 
Institute at Lakeland.  This is a school for commercial training that has made 
itself known in the most definite way, by the efficiency of its graduates, and 
as an institution for business education that ranks undoubtedly among the best 
in the South.  It is in some important ways a perfect reflection of the 
individual system and genius of Mr. CHISELBROOK, who has made the Chiselbrook 
system of commercial instruction significant for the thoroughness demanded by 
modern business and industrial vocations.
     Mr. CHISELBROOK has had almost a world wide business experience and 
training.  He was born at Siegen, Germany, October 8, 1887, son of LOUIS and 
OTTILIE CHISELBROOK, his mother of French ancestry of an old and aristocratic 
family, and his father a Saxon.  FRED CHISELBROOK was liberally educated in 
the city of Berlin and at Frankfort-on-the-Main.  He mastered the commercial 
branches, became an expert accountant, and while living in Berlin he was 
employed as a certified public accountant and in this capacity audited the 
books of the Berlin Branch of the Edison Company, the National Cash Register 
Company, the Italy Film Company and many other large institutions.  He also 
taught commercial branches in several colleges in Berlin, and was a private 
teacher there, holding a teacher’s certificate for two cities.
     In 1909 he came to America, for a time was an accountant in New York, and 
for several years followed commercial lines of work in Ogden, Utah, with the 
Amalgamated Sugar Company in 1909, and for 3 ½ years as chief of the 
accounting department of the Boyle Furniture Company.  Whether as a teacher or 
in the practical side of Commercial Accounting he has always been an 
originator and has made many improvements in business systems in private 
offices.  He has performed every detail of office work, correspondence, 
general stenography, court reporting, bookkeeping, auditing and public 
accounting.
     With these extensive experiences and qualifications Mr. CHISELBROOK came 
to Florida in 1915 and bought from W.D. HOLLAND a business college at 
Lakeland, thoroughly reorganizing the school as the Florida Commercial 
Institute.  The curriculum of this school includes not only the ordinary 
commercial branches, but lectured and instruction on higher accounting, 
auditing, economics of business, organization, transportation, commercial law, 
business efficiency, psychology, as well as courses designed to give expert 
skill in the handling of all the technical devices known to modern commercial 
practice.  There is also instruction in French, Spanish and the German 
Languages.
     Mr. CHISELBROOK is an accomplished scholar and linguist himself, and has 
written many articles on commercial and other subjects for newspapers and 
magazines.  His assistant is Mrs. CHISELBROOK, also a very talented woman.  
They have a staff of competent teachers to fill all the departments of 
instruction.
     In Berlin Mr. CHISELBROOK married Miss FRIEDA FRIEDRICH.  She was born in 
that city, daughter of FREDERICK and JOHANNA (ENGEL) FRIEDRICH, and was 
educated there.  They have five children, ELLEN, LESTER, ANNA, FRED, Jr., and 
HOPEWELL.


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