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Biographies
History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio
Vols. 1 & 2
By Jos. G. Butler, Jr. -Publ. American Historical Society -
Chicago & New York
1921
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FRED J. WARNOCK, Youngstown's present mayor was for ten
years before his induction into that office one of the very able
attorneys of the Mahoning Valley and had become known for his all
around qualifications as an able executive and clean, public
spirited citizen, with the welfare of his community first in his
heart and mind.
He was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, on a farm
lying just east of New Castle, June 27, 1878. His grandfather
was born in the north of Ireland and as a young lad came to the
United States, settling in Pennsylvania. The father of the
Youngstown mayor was Hugh H. Warnock, who was born and reared
in Lawrence County. During the Civil war he ran away from home
to enlist, but on account of his youth was rejected and sent home.
Subsequently he located at New Castle and built up a successful
business as a paint contractor, but lost his business and
practically all his accumulated resources during the memorable
panic of 1873. Subsequently buying a tract of land near New
Castle, he followed farming until his death, in 1895, when but
fifty-two years of age. He was a republican in politics, was a
member of the order of Masons and the Presbyterian church.
Hugh H. Warnock married Mary J. Rose, who
was born in Western Pennsylvania in 1847 and is still living at New
Castle, at the age of seventy-three. Her father, ISAAC P.
ROSE, was an early plainsman and trapper and as a companion of
Kit Carson took part in many battles with the Indians, by
whom he was wounded. Giving up life on the plains, he returned
east and for forty-six years was a prominent teacher in Western
Pennsylvania. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H.
Warnock all six are now living. Harry R., who
started railroading as a brakeman, is now general superintendent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. Louis C., a
resident of Youngstown, is an engineer on the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad. The third is Fred J. George C. is
a prominent physician and surgeon of Youngstown, Mabel
is the wife of James Banks, an engineer with the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, living at New Castle, Pennsylvania. Edwin H.,
the youngest, formerly with the Ingersoll-Rand Company of Pittsburg,
manufacturer and dealers in compressed air tools, served during the
World war in the Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry, Eightieth
Division, was wounded in the Argonne Forest, Sept. 26, 1918, and is
now with a firm in New York City as sales representative for the
Northeastern Territory.
Obtaining a practical education in the Warnock
School in his home district, Fred J. Warnock grew up familiar
with the tools and practices of farming. Being the oldest boy
at home at the time of his father's death, he remained to assist his
widowed mother on the farm until entering Mount Hope College in
Rogers, Ohio, where he is a student two terms. Returning home
, he taught during the winter season, carried on the farms summers,
at the same time advancing his knowledge by careful reading and home
study. In 1904, having graduated in the classical course from
Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, soon afterward
he located at New Castle and employed his days as a claim agent for
the local department of the Street Railway Company, and at night
studied law in the office of his cousin, Hon. George T.
Weingartner. In 1905, Mr. Warnock came to
Youngstown, read law with Theodore A. Johnston, and was
admitted to the Ohio bar in 1910. At that time he formed a
partnership with Robert J. Nicolson, and was soon launched in
an active and successful practice and handled a large business until
he assumed the office as mayor on Jan. 1, 1920.
Mr. Warnock has always stood for the clean,
honest and decent in both politics and business, and after his
nomination on the republican ticket for mayor in the fall of 1919 he
took as his platform a decent and liberal policy of municipal
government, with the parks, playgrounds and picture houses upon on
Sundays to an eighty-five per cent population of working people, who
cannot attend such places at any other time, but, beyond that, "Woe
to the Transgressor." On this platform he was elected by a
handsome majority, and while his administration at the outset was
involved in many extraordinary difficulties, he has handled his
office both with tact and efficiency such as to justify the
commendation of the best classes of citizenship.
Dec. 15, 1904, Mr. Warnock married Jean I.,
daughter of Robert Lawrence, of Lawrence County,
Pennsylvania. Mr. Warnock was born in Alabama, but her
father was a Pennsylvanian. They have two sons, Harry L.
and Fred J., Jr. Mr. Warnock is an active member of the
Evergreen Presbyterian Church. His pastor, Rev. W. C. Press,
who served as a chaplain with the Expeditionary Forces in France, is
one of his old school mates and now his pal. Mr. Warnock
is a member of all the local bodies of Masonry, being an officer
in many of them, and is likewise a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America, and belongs to the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and
the Kiwanis Club.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 57 |
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HENRY
WICK. In Youngstown, the name "Wick" is a
synonym for fiscal integrity and unusual ability, for high
character, and for public spiritedness. Among the many members
of this family who have contributed richly to the success and
soundness of Youngstown's business institutions and the quality of
her citizenship, one of the most prominent was Henry Wick,
born May 13, 1846, a son of Hugh Bryson and Lucretia Winchell
Wick, and a grandson of Henry Wick the founder of the
family in Youngstown, and his wife Hannah Baldwin Wick.
Born in Youngstown, Henry Wick spent
substantially the whole of his life in that city. He received
his early education in the public schools of that city and in
Western Reserve College.
He began business as a coal operator and was most
active in the development of the local coal mines of the Mahoning
Valley and the Pittsburgh field Later he became interested in
the iron business. He organized and operated the Youngstown
Rolling Mill Company, one of the most successful of the earlier
producers in this line. He was one of the incorporators of The
Ohio Iron and Steel Company and,, for many years, its vice
president. Much of the conspicuous success of this company is
attributed to his wise counsel. He organized also the Ohio
steel Company, the first company to manufacture Bessemer steel in
the Mahoning Valley. Of this company he was president from the
time of its organization until it was merged a few years later with
other companies to for the National Steel Company. He then was
president of the National Steel Company and continued to act in that
capacity until this company, in turn, was absorbed by the Carnegie
Steel Company and finally by the United States Steel Corporation.
Still later Mr. Wick bought the Elyria Iron and Steel Company
of Elyria, Ohio. He re-organized this company, greatly
increased the capacity of its plant, and, acting in the capacity of
president, had general supervision of its operations up to the time
of his death.
In addition to these, the more conspicuous of his
business undertakings, he was interested directly and indirectly in
a great many others. He was a partner in the well known and
notably successful banking firm of Wick Brothers & Company,
and an officer in the Wick National Bank, which was the
successor of that firm. Also, he was a director of the First
National Bank, the Dollar Savings and Trust Company, the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company, and many other of Youngstown's well known
business institutions.
For many years he was engaged in lumbering, metal
mining and ranching in the far West. A lover of nature and all
that went with it, he was intensely interested in agriculture and
live stock, and in later years owned and operated on a scientific
basis several large farms near his home city.
It is difficult, even today, to turn anywhere in
Youngstown without being confronted with some monument to Mr.
Wick's business genius. His talents were as varied as the
opportunities which came to his door, and he made exceptionally good
use of both.
Henry Wick was a vital and compelling force.
He was a tireless worker and a natural leader of men. He was a
hater of sham and show, and a lover of truth and justice. He
was loyal to friends and just to every one. He had a veritable
passion for home and for the near ones who are the life of home.
His domestic life was one of peculiar charm and unusual happiness.
He was an active and influential member of the First Presbyterian
Church, and an interested and liberal contributor to substantially
all of the welfare agencies of his home city, and an active worker
in many. Politically, he was a republican. A vigorous
advocate of prohibition, he for several years was the leader of the
dry forces in his home district.
Mr. Wick died of pneumonia in December, 1915.
His wife, Mary Arms Wick, a real partner, whose beautiful
character, high purposes and unwavering devotion had been a living
inspiration throughout the whole of his intensely active career,
followed him within five days. Both Henry Wick and this
noble woman, who was his wife, will long be remembered for the
uplifting influence which they exerted and the visible good they
wrought.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 51 |
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JAMES
L. WICK. For many years Wick has been an honored
and significant name in Youngstown life and affairs. the late
James L. Wick, who died Oct. 2, 1919, was primarily a
merchant. By nature he was quiet and unassuming, but was noted
for his integrity and moral worth, and Youngstown is much indebted
to such men as he for the enviable position the city now enjoys in
commercial affairs.
Born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1848,
James L. Wick was a son of John Dennick and Emily (Lippincott)
Wick and a grandson of Henry and Hannah (Baldwin) Wick.
He was reared at Youngstown, attended the common schools, and
finished his education at Hudson Academy, now a part of Oberlin
College. For a time he was a coal operator at Church Hill.
His longest association, however, was in mercantile lines, and for
many years ye was proprietor of a store under the firm name Wick,
Arms & Bloxon on the present site of the George L. Fordyce
Company at West Federal and Phelps Streets.
Mr. Wick was a thirty-second degree Scottish
Rite Mason. He married Julia Manney, and their living
children are Dennick M., James L., Jr., Elbridge A. and
George L.
Dennick M. Wick, the oldest son, was born in
Youngstown, July 13, 1880. He had a public school education,
and as a youth found employment as a messenger with the Dollar
Savings & Trust Company. He has been with that corporation
throughout his business career, and on his merit and ability has won
advancement to treasurer. He is a member of the First
Presbyterian Church, the Young Men's Christian Association, the
Youngstown Club and the Youngstown Country Club.
May 27, 1914, he married Miss Margaret Howells.
They have two children: Alice Julia and Robert
Dennick.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley,
Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New
York - 1921 - Page 257 |
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PHILIP AND MYRON C. WICK.
One of the most widely known and highly honored pioneer families of
Youngstown is the Wick family, which was established here in
a very early day and has been represented here continuously since.
Henry Wick, the progenitor of the family here, early had the
sagacity and prescience to discern the eminence which the future had
a store for this great section of the Buckeye commonwealth, and
acting in accordance with the dictates of faith and judgment he and
his descendants reaped in the fullness of time the benefits which
are the just recompense of indomitable industry, spotless integrity
and commendable enterprise. Few families of the county have
played a better or more noticeable role in the general progress of
the locality than this one, for while laboring for their individual
advancement its members have never shrunk from their larger duties
to civilization, and today they enjoy the respect and esteem of the
entire community. As before stated, Henry and Hannah
(Baldwin) Wick, great-grandparents of the subjects of this
review, were the first of the family to settle in Mahoning Valley.
Of their children, Paul married Susan A. Bull and they
became the parents of Myron C. Wick father of the subjects.
Myron C. Wick was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1848, and his
death occurred here in 1910. He was a man of exceptionally
keen business sagacity and succeeded in accumulating a comfortable
estate. In early life he acquired Rolling Mill and thereafter
was the dominant factor in that concern until its absorption by the
United States Steel Company. He seemed to have inherited that
instinct for business which has been a characteristic of the Wick
family. He was one of the organizers of the Dollar Savings
and Trust Company and was a member of its directorate until his
death. He was also a director of the New York Shipbuilding
Company of Camden, New Jersey, a director of the F. B. Stearns
Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and was closely identified with many
enterprises which contributed to the development and upbuilding of
Youngstown as a commercial and industrial center. Largely
through his efforts the Youngstown Hospital, designed largely for
the benefit of injured mill men, was built, and in his enterprise he
maintained a deep interest. His all too brief career was
replete with the good deeds to his descendants he left the
untarnished name he has inherited. He was one of the most
unostentatious of men, open-hearted and candid in manner, always
retaining in his demeanor the simplicity and candor of the old-time
gentleman, and his record stands as an enduring monument, although
his labors have ended and his name is but a memory. Myron
C. Wick was twice married, his first wife having been Susan
Winchell, who died, leaving one daughter, Laura.
His second marriage was with Elizabeth Bonnell, who survives
him, and the children born to this union are, Philip, Paul, Myron
C. and Caroline B.
Philip Wick, the eldest of these children, was born
on Apr. 3, 1886, and after completing the course in the public
schools attended Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, completing
his technical studies at the Yale-Sheffield Scientific School.
For some time thereafter he was connected with the Gary Iron and
Steel Company at Cleveland, Ohio, but after the death of his father
he returned to Youngstown to look after the affairs of the estate.
In 1912 he organized the Youngstown Securities Company, of which he
has been the only president. He is vice president and a
director of the Trumbull Steel Company of Warren, Ohio, a director
of the Ohio Iron and Steel Company, and a director of the First
National Bank and of the Dollar Savings and Trust Company of
Youngstown. Aside from his business interests he is deeply
interested in everything that tends to advance the wellbeing of
Youngstown and every worthy movement finds him in an ardent
supporter. To his marriage with Clara Kenworthy, of
Poughkeepsie, New York, which was solemnized on June 17, 1911, three
children have been born, Elizabeth, Philip and Richard K.
Paul Wick was born on Nov. 30, 1890, and he also
completed his educational studies in the Hill School at Pottstown,
Pennsylvania, and the Yale-Sheffield Scientific School. He has
become closely identified with large business interests, being vice
president of the Falcon Steel Company of Niles, Ohio, and is a
director of the First National Bank and the Dollar Savings and Trust
Company of Youngstown. He served as ensign in the U. S. Navy
during the world conflict. He was married to Almira Arms,
and to them have been born two sons, Paul M. and William
A.
Myron C. Wick, named in honor of his father, was
born in Youngstown on Oct. 24, 1892. Before the United States
had entered the Great European struggle he went abroad and became a
member of the American Ambulance Corps, connected with the French
Army. Upon the entry of the United States into the conflict he
entered the Officers' Training Camp in France and was given a first
lieutenant's commission. Thereafter until the close of the
struggle he was at the front in active service with the French
troops.
The two daughters of Myron C. Wick, Senior,
Laura and Caroline B., and the youngest son, Myron C.,
are unmarried.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 7 |
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CHARLES F. WILKINS, secretary
and general manager of the Wilkins-Leonard Hardware Company,
is one of the substantial business men of Youngstown who merits the
confidence he inspires. He was born in Fairfield County, Ohio,
on Aug. 24, 1866, a son of Isaac A. and Anna M. (Hart) Wilkins,
both of whom were natives of the same county as their son.
There they were married and, settling upon a farm, became useful
members of their community. He died in 1909, she surviving him
until 1918, when she too, passed away.
Charles F. Wilkins was reared in his native
county and learned the fundamentals of farming from his father while
he was attending the neighborhood school. When he was nineteen
years of age he secured a teacher's certificate and for two years
taught in the country districts, and the n, in 1886, decided to try
his fortune in a larger field, selecting Youngstown for the
experiment. At first he was employed by the Morris
Hardware Company for the meager salary of $25 per month, and
remained with that concern for seven years gaining during that
period a thorough knowledge of the hardware business, which has
proven very valuable to him his later operations. In 1892 he
joined the J. H. & F. A. Sells Company of Columbus, Ohio, as
a traveling salesman and represented it on the road for one year,
and seven years for the H. W. Lenkemeyer & Son, of Cleveland,
covering Northern Ohio and Eastern Pennsylvania, and then resigned
and returned to Youngstown, where he immediately organized the
Wilkins-Leonard Hardware Company, with a capital stock of
$50,000, which was taken by the friends he had made during his
former seven years' residence at Youngstown. This fact is very
significant, and is about as fine a testimonial any man need want of
the confidence felt in his ability. From the beginning Mr.
Wilkins has been secretary and general manager of the company,
and as such has so shaped its policies that it has had a prosperous
career, the volume of business showing a natural and very healthy
increase year by year. He has always taken a fatherly interest
in his employes and endeavors to so develop their capabilities as to
make them not only useful to the concern, but to their community at
large.
On September 27, 1898, Mr. Wilkins was united in
marriage with Miss Vernice M. Darrow, a daughter of David
R. and Laura N. Darrow, who, for the past thirty years have been
engaged in the market gardening business at East Youngstown.
Prior to her marriage Mrs. Wilkins was a teacher in the
public schools of Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins have
one son, Donald F., two children having died. James
D. died aged twelve years, and Julia A. died aged nine
months. Mr. Wilkins belongs to Youngstown Lodge No.
103, Independent Order Odd Fellows. He is a member of
the official board of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of
Youngstown. One of the boosters of Youngstown, Mr. Wilkins
has long been an active member of the Chamber of Commerce, the
Builders Exchange and is a director of the Credit Men's Association.
Having risen from the bottom, Mr. Wilkins understands the
needs of his over fifty employes, and is proud of the fact that all
he is today is the result of his own industry, thrift and
perseverance, and is constantly trying to demonstrate to others that
the same opportunities are waiting for them if they are willing to
make the same exertion to grasp them that he did.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 52 |
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LEO
S. WILKOFF, a son of one of Youngstown's foremost business
men, Samuel Wilkoff, whose career is sketched on other pages,
has earned his own right and distinction in his native city as a
lawyer.
Leo S. Wilkoff received his early education at
the Rayen High School, and attended college at Bedford City,
Virginia, and at Mount Union, Alliance, Ohio. He then entered
the Cincinnati Law School, graduating with his LL. B. degree in
1914. Soon afterward he was appointed second assistant
prosecuting attorney by Mr. Huxley, and the two years and
three months he spent in that office gave him a great variety of
experience and also confidence for independent practice. He
resigned to give his time to his growing general practice. He
ahs had much success in criminal cases.
Mr. Wilkoff is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Elks, with the Progress Club and other
local social and civic organizations. In 1913 he married
Miss Cecelia Belle Cohen daughter of Charles and Rae Cohen
of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter,
Ruth Caroline, born in 1914.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 133 |
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SAMUEL
WILKOFF, Several of the largest and most distinctive
establishments in Youngstown recognize Samuel Wilkoff as one
of their creators and a guiding genius in their affairs. The
story of his personal career is an inspiring one, though it can be
told only in meager outline.
He was born in Russian Poland, Apr. 1, 1863, a son of
Julius and Zippora Wilkoffsky, both parents now deceased.
A youth of nineteen, inspired by that urge of democracy which is a
part of the national character of his people, he came alone to the
United States in the late '70s. It was his intention to
discover and join a relative but he lost the address, and having
only two cents to his name he found as a matter of necessity an
opportunity to prove his enterprise and ability to make himself a
factor in the new world to which he was a complete stranger.
He managed to secure on credit a basket of tinware, which he peddled
and kept up this humble role of peddling merhant three months.
At the end of that time he discovered the address of his brother in
Pittsburgh, and joined him there, but having been successful in his
first line he continued as a peddler at Pittsburgh and in Beaver
Falls, Pennsylvania. He lived at Beaver Falls a number of
years. The first important stage in his business success was
when he was able to afford a horse and wagon with which to carry his
goods about the country. In 1888 Mr. Wilkoff used some
of his capital to establish a junk business in Akron, Ohio, where he
had as partners his brother William and also Charles
Wasbotsky, and L. Wilkoffsky, his brother-in-law.
In the latter part of that year the partnership was dissolved, and
Mr. Wilkoff and his brother William continued the
business together for thirteen years, the firm being known as
Wilkoffsky Brothers of Akron. Before engaging in business
in Akron, Mr. Wilkoff went to Kansas. Then from Kansas
went to Akron to engage in business.
In 1901 Mr. Wilkoff removed to Youngstown and
opened a branch office of the business in the old McKelvey
Building. Later his plant was established where the Baltimore
& Ohio Railway station is now located. When the station was
erected he removed to below Baldwin Flour Mills at Oak Hill.
The business was incorporated in 1901 as the Wilkoff Brothers
Company. Mr. Samuel Wilkoff sold his interest in that
business and established the Wilkoff Iron & Steel Company,
which later was consolidated with the Wilkoff Brothers
Company and since then the title has been the Wilkoff
Company.
In less than twenty years Mr. Wilkoff has
achieved a place of the greatest influence in the business and
industrial affairs of Youngstown. Vice president of the
Wilkoff Company, vice president of the Mill Creek Land Company,
and was president of the Glenwood Realty Company until the property
which he developed was sold. He still owns considerable real
estate. He owned the ground and was instrumental in bringing
the Concrete Still Company of New York to locate in Youngstown, and
erected the buildings necessary to house the plant. He also
has some farm land in and around McDonald.
Mr. Wilkoff for all his success has never lost his
democratic spirit. He is charitable to a fault and is now as
always deeply interested in the welfare of those associated with him
in his various enterprises.
Mr. Wilkoff has been happily married a number of
years and is father of four children. His oldest son Isaac
Wilkoff married Anna Wolfe of Beaver Falls, and has a
daughter, Betty Frances. Isaac is secretary and
assistant treasurer of the Wilkoff Company, is president of
the Wilkoff Realty Company, president of the Mill Creek Land
Company, director of the Market Realty Company, president of the
Youngstown Specialty Company, treasurer of the Willand
Petroleum Company and has had much to do with the re-organization of
all these local industries.
The second son is Joseph, general superintendent
of the Youngstown plant and a director of the Wilkoff
Company. The third son is Leo S., a successful
Youngstown lawyer, former assistant prosecuting attorney of the
county and secretary and general counsel for the Mill Creek Land
Company. The youngest of the family, Annetta, is the
wife of Philip Brown of Cleveland, secretary of the
Wilkoff Company.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 45 |
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WILLIAM
WILKOFF. While his friends and associates at Youngstown
declare William Wilkoff to be one of the ablest men of the
city, one of the chief elements in his career, enabling him to rise
from obscurity and poverty to a controlling influence in the great
industrial affairs of Eastern Ohio, has been a remarkable tenacity
of purpose which has held him true to his course in spite of all
privations, obstacles and handicaps.
He was born in Poland, Sept. 14, 1865, a Russian
subject. His early environment was that of a small farm.
His parents were Julius and Zippora Wilkoff and the family
were stoutly orthodox and pious Jews. William
Wilkoff used some of the means of his early business success to
bring his parents to this country and both of them died at
Youngstown.
In 1882, at the age of seventeen, he left his native
country and came to America. His first work was as a section
hand on railroad construction from Pittsburgh to Massilon, Ohio.
His wages were $1.50 a day. It was not work to which he was
accustomed, yet he held on until he could save a little capital for
independent business. His first capital he used to purchase a
small stock of merchandise, and became a peddler at Pittsburgh.
From a collector of miscellaneous waste material, he became an
independent dealer in the junk business, located at Beaver Falls,
and by that time had advanced his equipment to a single horse and
wagon. In 1888 he joined his brother Samuel in
partnership, and they became wholesale junk dealers at Akron.
Their business developed so rapidly that it was necessary to find a
larger market, and several years later the Wilkoff Brothers
moved to Youngstown, establishing their plant on ground leased from
the Baltimore & Ohio Railway, where that railroad subsequently built
its Youngstown station. In 1904 Wilkoff Brothers
Company, incorporated for $100,000, with William as president
of the company. In 1915 the business was reorganized on a
capital basis of $_00,000, and in 1919 it was necessary again to
increase the capital stock, this time to $1,000.000. When the
Wilkoff Company first bought their present location their
intentions were to eliminate the junk and scrap iron department and
confine their activities to the building of steel cars. In
1916 the Youngstown Steel Car Company was organized with a capital
stock of $250,000. William Wilkoff being president.
The capital has since been increased to $1,000,000, and as the
outgrowth and result of the enterprise of the Wilkoff Brothers
the industry is now one of the largest in the Youngstown district.
Recently the corporation acquired a 130 acre tract at Niles, Ohio,
and when the works are established in the new plant it is expected
that 1,000 men will be employed. The present plant at
Youngstown will then be sued for scrap iron.
Mr. Wilkoff is one of the original incorporators
of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, and is still a stockholder.
The various business concerns which he has promoted now do a nation
wide and international business, maintaining offices at New York and
Pittsburgh. Sam Wilkoff is vice president of both
companies, David J. is treasurer and Isaac Wilkoff is
secretary.
Jan. 16, 1894, Mr. Wilkoff married Miss Fanny
Cohen of Cleveland. They have three sons, Louis C.,
Ralph M., and Arthur Edward. The son Louis,
who married Miss Sadie Klein of Niles, is
secretary of the Youngstown Steel Car Company; the son Ralph
is a graduate of the Culver Military Academy of Indiana, and is
taking a university course. Mr. Wilkoff is a
member of the Hebrew Temple of Youngstown, and one of its most
generous patrons. He is affiliated with Youngstown Elks,
is a Mason, and many times in the last years his name has been
identified with movements affecting the good of his home city.
He is a tireless worker, and much of his success is due to the
remarkable concentration of energy upon the tasks in hand. In
fact he has been so busy that he has never been able to hold the
post of director in any other company except his own, and for a
similar reason has never found time for public office.
Source: History of Youngstown & The Mahoning Valley, Ohio -
Vol. II - Publ. American Historical Society - Chicago & New York -
1921 - Page 48 |
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