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man who buys the timber, operates the mills and makes pur- chases. Mr. Mowbray is the financial man of the concern and is in active charge of the selling end of the business.
In following the careers of the two men it is found that this course is just what they followed individually when they decided to form a partnership and combine their distinct abilities for their mutual good. That it was a wise move, and that each possesses the qualifications required by the other, has been demonstrated by the success of the Mowbray and Robinson enterprise.
To trace the history of each of the partners who give the company its name, and to observe how each was acquiring the experience later to be of such distinct service to the other, is interesting. Frederick Wilbur Mowbray was born at Peru, Ind., October 17, 1871, the son of William W. Mowbray and Mary (Whitezel) Mowbray. He attended the public schools of Peru, and, after equipping himself with a good education, sought em- ployment. He was eager to get to work and took the thing first at hand. It happened to be a job in the sawmill of C. H. Brownell at Peru. The future destiny of the young man was thus deter- mined, and he enlisted in the lumber business in a humble capacity to make it his life work. That was in 1889, but the next year he saw a new opportunity and he became an employee of the Crane interests. His service to W. B. Crane & Co., of Chicago, extended from 1890 to 1891, and for C. Crane & Co., of Cincinnati, from 1892 to 1901.
February 10, 1904, Mr. Mowbray married Louise Oberly. They have three daughters, Juanita, 8 years of age, Mary, aged 6, and Ruth, aged 4. The family is affiliated with the Methodist Church. Mr. Mowbray is a Republican in politics and is active in social and fraternal life. He is a member of the of the Scottish Rite Masons, Knights Templars, Shrine and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Business Men's Club of Cincinnati.
Edward Oren Robinson was born at Olney, Ill., January 17, 1867. His father was Squire Rankin Robinson, and his mother Maria (Greer) Robinson. He received his education in the public schools at Sumner, Ill. Like his partner, he was eager to get into active business, and leaving school he sought employment in Sumner. That was in 1884, when he was 17 years of age. He was first employed by May & Bunn, dealers in general mer- chandise at Sumner, but in 1886 he turned to lumber as an occupation and went to work for C. Crane & Co. He continued in that connection until the Mowbray, Robinson & Ensweiler partnership was formed in 1901. Mr. Robinson married Lydia Jane Edgar at Newport, Ky., March 20, 1895. . They are asso- ciated with the Methodist Church. Mr. Robinson is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Business Men's Club and Automobile Club in Cincinnati, and is a Scottish Rite Mason and an active Knight Templar.
The history of the Mowbray & Robinson Company dates from 1901. At that time both Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Robinson were employed by C. Crane & Co., of Cincinnati. Mr. Robinson was the outdoor man and Mr. Mowbray had charge of the office. It occurred to them that they might well form a partnership, and so in April, 1901, such a concern, known as Mowbray, Rob- inson & Ensweiler, was launched. January 1, 1905, it became Mowbray & Robinson, and in December, 1912, the concern was incorporated as the Mowbray & Robinson Company.
The Mowbray & Robinson Company owns 53,000 acres in fee simple, and another 35,000 acres of stumpage, in eastern Ken- tucky in Breathitt, Leslie, Clay, Perry and Knott Counties, this timber supplying the requirements of their mills at Quicksand, West Irvine and Viper, Ky. These mills include five band mills and a resaw at Quicksand, the mill at West Irvine, which the Mowbray & Robinson Company is contemplating making into~a double mill, and the new mill at Viper. The company has both the timber and the mills to cater to a large and particular trade.
The Mowbray & Robinson Company operates a large and completely stocked hardwood lumber yard in Cincinnati sur- rounded by Sixth Avenue, west, Carr and Harriett Streets. It has distributing yards also at Rochester, N. Y., Detroit, Mich.,
and Brooklyn, N. Y. The Detroit yard is operated under the name of J. M. Clifford & Co., and the Brooklyn yard under the name of the Burgess Bros. Company. They are practically branches of the Mowbray & Robinson Company, being almost exclusively controlled by Messrs. Robinson and Mowbray.
This, in brief, is the story of the Mowbray & Robinson Com- pany, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the biography of the two men who constitute it. Both of them, while still young men, have had a quarter of a century's experience in the lumber business and jointly they possess a knowledge of its diverse duties that em- braces everything from the wise purchase of the standing tree to the final disposition of the manufactured lumber. They help to give Cincinnati its eminence as a hardwood center.
THE J. A. FAY & EGAN COMPANY, Largest Manufacturers In the World of Woodworking Machinery.
One of the great industries of Cincinnati is the manufacture of woodworking machinery. It was started in this town about 1830, just 80 years ago. That is a long time, and one concern in Cincinnati has grown for 80 years, and is larger now and more prosperous than ever before.
The J. A. Fay & Egan Company leads the world in the manufacture of woodworking machinery. Its salesmen traverse the globe, go down one coast of South America and up the other, go over to Cape Town, in Africa, to Europe and Australia.
THE J. A. FAY & EGAN CO.
In 1851 this firm took the great bronze grand medal at the Crystal Palace, in London, England, and in 1900 took the Grand Prix at Paris. The company has been visited in Cincinnati by Prince Hilkoff, of Russia, the Minister of Railways and the In- terior, who came all the way from St. Petersburg to examine the plant. General Oto, the Commander of the Arsenal at Tokyo, Japan, and many other notable men have visited the plant. They have had delegations from Brazil and from Europe; and the great works of Krupp, and the shipbuilders on the Clyde and at Kiel have a great many of their machines.
The J. A. Fay & Egan Company had its beginning in the year 1830, when Mr. J. A. Fay began the manufacture of wood- working machinery for his own use in a planing mill at Keene, N. H. Seeing the great need of woodworking machinery in the world he soon began to manufacture it for sale. He went to Cincinnati in the early 30's and started the business of J. A. Fay & Co., which soon grew to large proportions.
In 1874 Mr. Thomas P. Egan left the business of Steptoe, McFarland & Co., where he had acted in the capacity of sales- man for several years, and started the Egan Company. This company grew so rapidly that in 10 years it was a rival of J. A. Fay & Co. In 1893 the two companies united under one name, J. A. Fay & Egan Company. In the years since great strides have been made in its commercial importance until today it is easily the largest concern of its kind in the world.
The business of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company, both domestic
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and foreign, is done entirely through its own representatives. While the preponderance of its trade is domestic its export trade is greater than all other wood-working machinery concerns com- bined. Both the domestic and foreign trade of this firm arose largely from the demand created for its machines by adver- tising in this country and Europe.
The great demand for the machines is justly attributable to the care and enterprise exercised in originating new machines and bringing them to such perfection that the domestic, as well as the European manufacturers copy the designs as near as they dare. There is hardly a car shop on the continent of Europe that does not use Fay & Egan machinery.
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THE O. ARMLEDER CO. Largest Manufacturers of Fine Business Wagons In the World.
Thirty-three years ago, in a small shop, Otto Armleder built his first wagon. It was of modern design, sturdy, strong and of honest quality, and immediately made many friends. His motto from the outset was "not how cheap, but how good," and from a decidedly humble beginning the seed that was sown so well has gradually, after many enlargements, developed into the giant company now located at Plum, Charles and Twelfth
Streets, Cincinnati, that today is universally conceded to be the largest concern in the world building high-grade business de- livery wagons and motor trucks, a department for the manu- facture of the latter being one of the most recent additions to the already large plant.
Mr. Otto Armleder, President of The O. Armleder Co., was born in Cincinnati, October 15th, 1862; he is married, and resides at Wyoming, Ohio. He is a member of the Business Men's Club. Queen City Club, Chamber of Commerce, Pen and Pencil Club. Hamilton County and Wyoming Golf Clubs; is a Mason, a Shriner. an Elk, and member of many other organizations.
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
The First National Bank is one of the strongest financial in- stitutions not only of the Middle West, but of the entire country, and has the added distinction of holding Charter No. 24 and of being to-day the fifth oldest na- tional bank in the United States. It was one of the very first national banks to be organ- ized in response to the call in 1863 of Secretary of the Treasury Sal- mon P. Chase, of Cincinnati, for
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
banks to be founded on the then almost dis- credited bonds of the United States Government. Of the first 24 banks chartered 19 have gone out of busi- ness, through hav- ing liquidated or having been merged with other banks.
The First National has paid out in dividends over $11,000,000. This statement does not take into account the dividends by the numerous other national, state and private banks which it has absorbed during the last two-score years.
Big Family Tree.
The family tree of the First National would form the basis of a large portion of the history of banking in Cincinnati during the last two-score years.
In 1871 the First National began its career as a merging bank by absorbing the Central National Bank. During the year 1904 it absorbed the Ohio Valley National Bank, which was originally the private banking house of Espy, Heidelbach & Co., and which became a national bank in 1886 under the name of the Ohio Valley. In 1887 the Ohio Valley took over the business of the Cincinnati National Bank, which had merged with the Exchange National in 1883. In 1887 the Ohio Valley National absorbed the
Union National, which dated back to the old Citizens' Bank started by W. Smead in 1843, and which later was called the Smead, Collard & Hughes Citizens' Bank, and then Evans, Swift & Hughes, in 1859, and Hughes, Wright & Co. in 1875.
THE GLOBE-WERNICKE CO.
Manufacturers of "Unit" Bookcases, Filing Cabinets and Accessories.
Located in Norwood, one of the pure-air suburbs of Cincinnati, is a factory whose products are known the world over. Down in the south of Africa, up in the most northern city of Norway, in Melbourne and Buenos Ayres, that elastic trade-mark "Globe- Wernicke" is a familiar sign.
"It grows with your business and your business grows with it," is a company slogan that has necessitated an addition every year to the Norwood plant of the Globe-Wernicke Company since it was started. 10 years ago, until it is now by far the largest factory of its kind in the world.
People who go through it for the first time simply marvel at the modern equipment and resources. Here are manufactured the famous "Unit" bookcases, as well as sectional filing cabinets, in both wood and steel. It is a pretty good "morning constitu- tional" to tramp over an acre lot. Some tangible idea of the floor area of this Norwood factory is realized in the statement that there are over 20 acres actual floor space, and every foot of it is interesting.
Three hundred and fifty thousand bookcase sections represent considerable forest growth, and yet that many are carried at one time and in one section of this factory. So when an order for a train load of 35 cars is received from one concern it can thus be filled without embarrassing any one department, and within the short period of 36 hours, as has been demonstrated more than once.
Almost every device manufactured in wood is also duplicated in steel-but the steel is finished like the wood in both quar- tered oak and mahogany. Not a few visitors are momentarily embarrassed after expressing their individual preferences and delight over some richly finished mahogany in natural colors to realize suddenly through the sense of touch that they are stand- ing before and really admiring a piece of cold steel.
Further realization of the greatness of this Norwood factory is emphasized by the fact that it requires another complete build- ing seven stories high, 365 feet long and 75 feet wide to manu- facture the supplies such as folders, vertical guides, record cards, indexes, transfer cases, etc., used in filing cabinets. This building forms one of a group of fifteen seen in the illustration below.
THE GLOBE-WERNICKE COMPANY. Manufacturers of Business Furniture.
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THE AULT & WIBORG CO
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THE AULT & WIBORG COMPANY.
Manufacturers of Printing Inks and Dry Colors.
The Ault & Wiborg Company was founded in 1876 by L. A. Ault and F. B. Wiborg, was incorporated in 1891, and to-day is the largest manufacturer of printing inks and dry colors in the United States.
The main factory is in Cincinnati, but they also have large factories in Jersey City, Toronto, Canada, London and Buenos Ayres, with branch houses at New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Buffalo, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Montreal, Can. Winnipeg, Can., Havana, Cuba, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Paris, France.
This concern also has a varnish factory in Norwood, Ohio, which manufactures a full line of varnishes, such as architect- ural, baking, and for all manufacturing purposes.
Also manufactures typewriter ribbons and carbon papers, and is headquarters for lithographie supplies.
THE BALDWIN PIANO COMPANY.
The Baldwin Piano Company, manufacturers of pianos and player pianos, is representative of the industrial spirit of Cin- cinnati. Its group of piano factories in Cincinnati are of great architectural beauty, situated in a most picturesque location, opposite Eden Park entrance.
The different instruments made by The Baldwin Piano Com- pany have a world-wide reputation for their supreme excellence. In 1900 the Baldwin Piano was exhibited at the International Ex- position at Paris, and received the Grand Prix, an honor coveted by all the manufacturers of the world, but which has never before or since been bestowed upon any other American piano.
In 1904 the Baldwin Piano was exhibited at the World's Fair held at St. Louis, and was again awarded the Grand Prize, while the general factory exhibit was awarded another grand prize, demonstrating the superiority of the Baldwin methods, processes and materials, in piano and player piano manufacture. Cincin- nati is justly proud of this progressive concern.
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THE BALDWIN PIANO FACTORIES. CINCINNATI.
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W. F. ROBERTSON STEEL & IRON CO.
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THE PR MITCHELL COMPANY.
THE P. R. MITCHELL CO. Manufacturers of Curled Hair, Pillows, Cushions, Dusters, Etc.
THE KRIPPENDORF-DITTMANN CO. Manufacturers of Shoes.
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THE MANSS SHOE MFG. CO.
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THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO.
Soap Manufacturers.
The Procter & Gamble Co., of Cincinnati, is one of the very largest manufacturers of soap and soap powders of all kinds, glycerine, red oils, stearic acid, candles, cottonseed oil and cooking fats, in the whole world, and no review of the "Queen City's" interests would be complete without due and proper ref- erence to this national institution.
The Procter & Gamble Co. was incorporated in 1890, taking over the business of Procter & Gamble, which had existed since 1837. The incorporating capital amounted to $2,500,000.00 pre- ferred stock, $2,250,000.00 common stock, and $2,000,000.00 bonds. The bonds have been retired by purchase, and the common stock has been increased, so that today its present capitalization stands $2,250,000.00 preferred stock, authorized common stock $24,000,- 000.00, issued common $12,480,000.00.
The officers are William Cooper Procter, president; James N. Gamble, vice-president; Hastings L. French, secretary; John J. Burchenal, vice-president and general manager; Herbert G. French, treasurer.
CINCINNATI SASH & DOOR CO.
Distributors of "Beaver Board."
The Cincinnati Sash & Door Co. is one of the best known firms, not only in Cincinnati but of the entire Middle West, dealing wholesale in Sash, Doors, Blinds and General Mill Work. In eleven years its trade has grown until it now extends to every State in the Union. One large department of this institu- tion is given over entirely to the distribution of the so-called "Beaver Board" known nationally.
The Cincinnati Sash & Door Co. was established in 1903 by Mr. W. G. Layer, and the present mem- bers of the firm are Mr. Layer and A. B. Peters.
THE CHRISTIAN MOERLEIN BREWING COMPANY.
Manufacturers of "Barbarossa" Beer.
One of Cincinnati's largest and most widely known Industries is The Christian Moerlein Brewing Com- pany, brewers and bottlers of pure lager beer. The business was established in 1854 by Mr. Christian Moerlein, a native of Germany, and the present com- pany was incorporated in 1881. From a small be-
ginning this business has grown until it is one of the largest breweries in the United States, with an annual output of 500,000 barrels of beer.
The most advanced methods known to the art of brewing are employed by this wide-awake company and the demand for its products continues to grow constantly. In the many processes of brewing every care is taken to achieve perfection. The best, the richest, the choicest materials that nature affords are used in the manufacture of its products. Absolute laws for cleanli- ness and purity are observed in every department and every sanitary precaution is taken to insure a perfect beverage, as rich as the finest materials can make it, as pure as modern sanitary methods can make it, as good as anybody can make it. The brewery has ample storage facilities, where the beer is aged for months before it is placed on the market.
More than fifty years of constant striving for improvement have gained for this company an enviable reputation. Its prod- ucts have always been accepted as the most wholesome, health- ful and nourishing. The purity and unvarying quality of these products are beyond question. There are no better beers known to brewing.
This enterprising company gives employment to an army of men and operates its own refrigerator cars, in which it ships
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THE ROLLMAN & SONS CO.
Dry goods, furnishing goods and shoes. Store at Fifth and Vine Streets. Henry Rollman, president ; Justin Rollman, secretary and treasurer.
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THE MABLEY & CAREW CO.
Clothing for men and women ; hats, caps, furnishing goods, millinery, boots, shoes, etc.
Store at Fifth and Vine Streets. Joseph T. Carew, president; Robert G. Carew, vice-president ; Adolph C. Weiss, secretary and treasurer ; F. E. Corner, assistant secretary and treasurer.
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THE GLOBE SOAP COMPANY.
THE GLOBE SOAP COMPANY
its celebrated beers to every section of the country. It also ships large quantities of its products to Canada, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Panama and other foreign countries outside of the United States, too numerous to mention.
Its well-known products received highest awards at the Cin- cinnati Industrial Expositions 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1888; Augusta, Ga., Exposition, 1888; World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 1895, and Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, Tenn., 1897, which were well earned.
The Company has a large bottling establishment, well equipped with every modern appliance, such as machines for thoroughly soaking, washing and rinsing bottles, filling and cork- ing machines of the most up-to-date designs; large steaming tanks for pasteurizing the beer after it is bottled, labeling ma- chines, automatic conveyors, etc., and is prepared to execute all orders without the least delay. The absolute accuracy with which the beers are brewed and bottled insures them not only pure and delicious, but uniformly of one excellent quality. Their first contact with the air is in the glass drank by the consumer. Every bottle is sterilized.
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THE LEYMAN BUICK COMPANY ยท Distributors of Buick Motor Cars
Space does not permit of giving in full general description of the many departments of this, one of Cincinnati's foremost industries, but visitors to Cincinnati are always welcome at the brewery and the company invites inquiries from any who wish to know more about its celebrated products, which have an inter- national reputation.
THE GEO. WIEDEMANN BREWING COM- PANY, INC.
Newport, Ky.
The growth of the plant of the Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Company has been perhaps greater than any brewery in the United States. As one passes the immense Newport plant it is hard to believe that it has been built up within the last 20 years.
In the year 1871 Geo. Wiedemann. Sr., commenced the brew- ing of beer in a little building on Sixth Street, which was then known as the Jefferson Street Brewery, and which had a very limited capacity. To-day the plant of the Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Company is one of the model breweries in the United States, and the product is shipped throughout the United States and foreign countries. The present company was incorporated by Geo. Wiedemann, Sr., Chas. Wiedemann and Geo. Wiedemann, Jr., in May, 1890. Geo. Wiedemann, Sr., died the same year, and the business was continued under the management of the two young men. Geo. Wiedemann, Jr., died in 1901 and the business continued under the management of Chas. Wiedemann.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been expended in the past 15 years for buildings, machinery and the most modern equipment that can be had for the brewing of beer. The im- mense plant is visited by people from all parts of the country, people who are interested in the art of brewing, and their vor- dict when leaving the plant is that it is the most modern. clean and sanitary they have ever seen.
The malt for the celebrated Wiedemann beers is made at its own malt house from the highest grade of barley that can be found in the market. The malt house is equipped with every modern and approved device. It is the pneumatic system and is recognized as the most efficient and satisfactory method of pro- ducing high-grade malt.
A visit to the Wiedemann stables will not soon be forgotten. It is the home of over 100 horses and is equipped with every modern appliance for their care. The company has its own hospital erected for the care of the horses. It also has its own garage and operates eight trucks.
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THE F. H. LAWSON COMPANY.
Tin Plate, Copper, Sheet Iron, Stamped and Japanned Tinware, Tinners' Tools. Machines, Etc.
It is seldom, in a new country, there is found a business handed down to the third and fourth generation retaining the same location and same family name for a period of nearly a century, and during that time maintaining a high reputation for respect- ability and good credit and holding the confidence of the trade and public. Thomas Lawson, the founder, came with his family from England to this city in the year 1816, making the trip from New York to Cincinnati by wagon. He opened a store on Fifth street, near Main, on the site of the present Dennison Hotel; also on Main below Fifth, the two stores meeting in the rear. He engaged in the manufacture of copper and tinware and plumbing and was soon doing a large business for that time, which was principally with the river trade and the sugar refiners of the South.
In 1830 Fenton, Robert and Thomas, Jr., Mr. Lawson's three sons, were admitted to the firm, which became known as Thomas Lawson & Sons. At that time they added to their business tinplate and metals. Thomas, Sr., died in 1841. The firm then con- tinued as Fenton Lawson & Bros. Soon after Robert died, and finally Thomas, Jr., retired, owing to poor health, the firm then ehanging to Fenton Lawson.
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