Frederick Gustave Hassebrock was born in St. Louis County, Missouri on the 10th of January 1903 and died in Pensacola, Florida on the 24th of June 1978. He was active with the Florida project of the Index of American Design between 1938 and 1942. In the 1940 census, he is listed as an artist with the Index of American Design. A marriage certificate states he was married to Noma Holloway on 19 April 1934 in Milton, Santa Rosa County, Florida.