Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records
of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio
- Illustrated -
Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.,
1894

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H. P. KOHLMYER, secretary of the Metal Spinning and Stamping Company, Norwalk, is a native of that city, born Nov. 21, 1858, near the spot where he now resides.      He is the eldest son in a family of six children born to John H. and Gergrude (Klegg) Kohlmyer, the former a native of Germany, a tinner by trade, who came to America in early manhood.  He married after coming to this country, reared a respectable family, and by his thrift and energy was enabled to surround his children with the comforts and advantages of the times.  He and his family are residents of Norwalk.      H. P. Kohlmyer attended the public schools of Norwalk, and when well grounded in the fundamentals of a business education he learned the tinner's trade under his father.  After this he entered a hardware store as clerk, in which line he opened out on his own account in 1882.  In 1890 he had succeeded in drawing the attention of others to the importance of a new process of manufacturing tin and other ware, and they organized the Norwalk Metal Spinning and Stamping Company, capital stock twenty thousand dollars, Mr. Kohlmyer taking seven thousand dollars.  The works were built, were soon in running order, and had been in operation about four weeks when they accidently caught fire and burned to the ground.  But by Dec. 19, 1891, the plant was rebuilt, and the works were not only running, but ready to make a shipment of goods on that day.  There are but three metal stamping concerns in the United States, and this is the only one that makes the metal spun goods in nickle; thus the products go upon the world's markets, practically without competition, the demand for them all continually out running the capacity of the works.  Their stamp to make tea-kettles, etc., weighs over twenty thousand pounds; all their machinery is of the latest improved make, and complete in every department.  The factory in Norwalk is one of the institutions in which the people take great pride, and its existence is largely due to the untiring energy and intelligent persistence of the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch.       H. P. Kohlmyer and Emma Fox, of Toledo, Ohio, were united in the bonds of matrimony, De. 22, 1880, and to them have come three children: Justice, Cornelius and Adolph.  Socially our subject is a member of the K. of P.; the family worship at the Lutheran Church. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 265

C. L. KREIDER, M. D., is the oldest medical practitioner in Monroeville, and has been very successful in his chosen vocation.  He is a son of Michael Kreider, a native of Lebanon county, Penn., and his ancestry (where were of Dutch origin) have been natives of Pennsylvania for three generations.      C. L. Kreider was born May 29, 1840, in Lebanon county, Penn., and received by his early education at Lebanon Academy.  He then took a medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating therefrom in 1863, and began to practice in Lebanon county.  In 1868 he came to Monroeville, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the duties of his profession.  Dr. Kreider was united in marriage at Philadelphia, Penn., with Miss Caroline Walter, who has borne him four children.  He was formerly a member of the American Medical Association, and is now identified with the Delamater Medical.  In politics he votes with the Republican party, with which his sons are also associated.  He and his family are all adherents of the M. E. Church, and socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F.      Of the children born to Dr. and Mrs. Kreider, the following is a brief record:  Walter Kreider was educated in the public schools of Monroeville, then took a partial course in civil engineering at Ann Arbor, Mich.; he is now employed in Chicago, Ill.  E. R. Kreider graduated from the Monroeville High School, then took a medical course at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, receiving his diploma i 1890; he is now in partnership with his father, and has already secured the confidence of the community as a rising young physician.  Charles R. Kreider also graduated from the Monroeville High School, afterward preparing for business life at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; he is now in the employ of Sanborn & Co., Chicago, Ill.  Mabel, youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. Kreider, is a student in Delaware College, Ohio. Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1894 - Page 497

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