Dr. Fred L. Garlock (1897-1985)

GARLOCK, ADAMS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/1/2020 at 14:52:54

From Nevada Journal December 13, 1985 (page 1)

DR. FRED L. GARLOCK

Dr. Fred L. Garlock, 88, a retired economist with the Dept. of Agriculture and a expert on farm credit and banking, died of pneumonia Nov. 10, 1985, at Wilson Health Care enter, Asbury Methodist Village, Gaithersburg, Md.

Dr. Garloc, a resident of Bethesda, Md., until moving to Asbury Village this year, was born in Maxwell, Ia., grew up and at one time taught in the high school there.

He was a naval aviator during World War I. He graduated from the University of Iowa and earned master's and doctoral degrees in economics at Columbia University. From 1923 to 1930, he taught economics at Iowa State University.

In 1930, Dr. Garlock moved to Washington and joined the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the Dept. of Agriculture. He had done work on the farm depression of the early 1920s and he used this in his work on farm credit programs and related matters during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In World War Ii, he was on loan to the Commodity Credit Corp. and the Production and Marketing Administration. He then returned to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, where he retired in 1965.

In the course of his career, Dr. Garlock advised numerous industry and government organizations on different aspects of agricultural economics. They included the American Bankers Assn., the Treasury Dept. and the Federal Reserve Board, and the National Agricultural Credit Committee, an association of the principal farm organizations and farm lenders. He assisted the Census Bureau in developing its surveys of farm debt.

Dr. Garlock was a member of the Cosmos Club, the American Economic Assn. and the American Farm Economic Assn. He also was member of the Bethesda United Methodist Church.

A son, Dr. Frederick A Garlock died in 1967.

Survivors include his wife, the former Marie Adams, whom he married in 1921, of Asbury Methodist Village; a brother, Richard H. Garlock of West Orange, N.J., and six grandchildren.