Notes for Louis H. BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Louis H. BREYFOGLE

Lewis Breyfogle relates that he met Louis in Akron, OH about 1924. He wrote:

"Surprisingly, he was a big blonde man. Incidentally, he was a famous football player in his youth."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 45

Lewis Breyfogle records the fact that this couple did not have any children.

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 45

Louis is listed in the 1870 Federal Census as being 5/12 years old and living with his parents in Delaware, OH.

SOURCE: 1870 Federal Census Delaware, Delaware, OH

Louis and his wife Flora were living in Kalamazoo, Michigan during the 1920 Federal Census. Hi autobiography lists him as working in a paper mill, but the census indicated he was a "Wool Salesman."

SOURCE: 1920 Federal Census Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI

"Lou" Breyfogle's Autobiography
I was born in Stratford, Ohio, and started my career in the paper industry at the age of thirteen as a cutter boy in the old Stratford Wrapping Mill, which was then owned by the Randall-Mills and Edsell. Later came my promotion to backtender and three years after I was assigned as machine tender at the daily wage of $1.25. Six months later I became machine tender for the Hastings Paper Mills Company, Dresden, Ohio. I worked there for about two years, saving sufficient money meanwhile to take a course in a business college. I next secured a machine tending job in the F. J. Diem and Company mill, Dayton, Ohio. Two years later this mill was taken over and closed by the Columbia Straw Paper Company. I then went with the Nixon Paper Company, Richmond, Indiana, set up an old Fourdrinier and started on lightweight bag paper. I was with this mill until it closed.
In 1893 I returned to Stratford to work for the then new Delaware Paper Company. From there I went to Steubenville, Ohio, to run a machine for Hartje Brothers under Tom Bygot, superintendent. I was with this Company two and a half years. The Tarentum Paper Mills installed a new machine and I joined them as machine tender for one year. From this mill I went with the Harvey Paper Company, Wellsburg, West Virginia, to run a machine that the Black and Clawson Company had removed from a Louisville, Kentucky, mill and rebuilt.
My next move was to the Ford Manufacturing Company, Clinton, Iowa, and soon after I went to Alexandria, Indiana, to run machine for the Alexandria Paper Company, where I remained for eighteen months. When the Wayne Mill, Hartford City, Indiana, installed a new machine. I went with them to start it up.
Next I joined with John and Al Wiley in a lease of the old National Paper Company, Waterloo, Iowa, and ran it a short time. I next went with the Chicago Coated Board Company. Tom Harvey, now manager of the Gardner Harvey Coated Board Company. Tom Harvey, now manager of the Gardner Harvey Paper Company, was superintendent. I moved on to the Beveridge Paper Company and ran a machine for them, leaving to go with the Franklin Manufacturing Company, Franklin, Pa. W. D. Boyce had purchased this mill and J. E. Daley was superintendent. Mr. Daley hired me to dismantle the mill and after it was shipped to Marseilles, Illinois, I set up the machinery and started the mill. From there I went with the Marion Paper Company, and then with the Ohio Boxboard Company as superintendent. I was with this company three years, after which I joined the Western Board and Paper Company as superintendent. I built and started up this mill. Later I went with the Oscar Felt and Paper Company, and rebuilt it as a board mill, the name being changed to the Michigan Box Board Company. From this mill I went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, as superintendent of the Standard Paper Company. I was with them about three years. After this I went with Mr. G. H. Nood, president of the River Raisin Paper Company, as general superintendent of the Bogalusa Paper Company, and was with them during the building and starting up of this mill.
My father, Henry S. Breyfogle, started to work as a teamster for the Andrew, Perry and Mendenhall in 1858. He later became a machine tender, and the most of this time as a beater engineer.
I can remember old Joe Philips when he ran a machine at Stratford, but only for a short time as he was noted as being "the tramp paper maker." I also remember when Jack Simington worked in this mill, and both of them have had many meals at my home.
NOTE: This autobiography was transcribed from a photocopy of an article in a company newsletter publication titled Superior Facts, and a sub-title, The Paper Makers Chemical Corporation and Associates, Ralph m. Snell, Editor. It included a small photograph of Louis that was not clear enough to scan for publication.
SOURCE: Superior Facts, September 1930 Volume 4, Number 3, Page 5

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