CAPT. ROBERT L. QUEISSER.  Next to the national flag itself perhaps the most familiar emblem of ```war times in America is the "service flag," with its star or stars representing individuals from the home, the church, the business or the factory who are serving under the colors in the uniform of a soldier.  Probably not one person in a thousand knows the originator and inventor of this service flag.  He is a Cleveland man, for many years prominent record of military service with the Ohio National Guard organization, having been in command of the Machine Gun Company of the Fifth Regiment Ohio Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916-17.
     Capt. Robert L. Queisser is the originator and designer of the service flag.  The service flag and pennants and all manner of novelties using the Service Flag design are now being made all over the United States.
     Queisser has been well known in Ohio military circles for a number of years.  His record reads as follows:  Regimental adjutant, Third Regiment Infantry Ohio National Guard; battalion adjutant, Seventh Regiment Infantry; captain-commissary and captain Machine Gun Company, Fifth Regiment Infantry; and four years aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Judson Harmon.
     Robert L. Queisser was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, Aug. 9, 1866, son of Julius and Caroline Jeanette (Schliebitz) Queisser.  He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Business College, and spent a number of years of his earlier life in railroad work.  He left a responsible position in the traffic department of the Baltimore & Ohio to become manager of The Ohio Press Brick Company at Zanesville.  This was one of the subsidiary companies of The Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, of St. Louis, Missouri.  Since then he has gained wide prominence among the clay products manufacturers of the country.  He was with the Ohio Press Brick Company five years, and then, with William H. Hunt and C. A. Bliss, organized The Hunt-Queisser-Bliss Company of Cleveland.  This firm engaged in the brick and builders' supply business.  In 1911 Captain Queisser acquired the Hunt interests and the name of the firm was changed to The Queisser-Bliss Company, and in 1915 to The R. L. Queisser Company.  Captain Queisser is a former president of the Brick Builders Association of America, was for five years secretary of The Ohio Face Brick Manufacturing Association, and for three years secretary and treasurer of the Face Brick Dealers Association of America, is president and general manager of The R. L. Queisser Company, and a member of the Cleveland Builders Exchange and the Cleveland Engineering Society.  He is also a director of The Doan Savings & Loan Association.  The Guardian Mortgage Company and president of The Oak Investment Company.
     While a resident of Zanesville Captain Queisser also served as president of its chamber of commerce.  He is past exalted ruler of Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is past grand esteemed leading knight of the order.  In Masonry he is affiliated with Windermere Lodge No. 627, Free and Accepted Masons, is past high priest Windermere Chapter No. 203, Royal Arch Masons; is thrice illustrious master of Windermere Council No. 113, Royal and Select Masters and past commander Coeur de Lion Commandery No. 64, Knights Templar; Scioto Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Thirty-second Degree, and is a member of Al Koran Temple Mystic Shrine and Al Sirat Grotto.  He was past vicegerent snark of Ohio, Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos, and in 1913 was president of the Cleveland Rotary club and later was a director of the International Association.  He is a member of the Hermit Club, Cleveland Athletic Club, Tippecanoe Cub, Masonic Club, Cleveland Automobile Club, and is a member and was a director in 1914 of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce.  Captain Queisser's business offices are in the Schofield Building.
     At Springfield, Ohio, Nov. 24, 1887, he married Miss Jessie L. Fried.  They have two sons, Charles Fried and Robert L., Jr., both now serving as first lieutenants in the army.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 252