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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
The History of the City of Dayton
and
The Montgomery County, Ohio.
by Rev. A. W. Drury
1909
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W. L.
ADAMSON. It is a well known fact that industry
constitutes the key that unblocks the portals of success
and, realizing this fact early in life. W. L. Adamson
has put forth persistent and well directed effort throughout
his business career, wherein steady advancement has brought
him to his present enviable position as president of the
wholesale grocery house conducted under the name of
W. L. Adamson Company.
He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1848 and his youthful
days were there passed, while the public schools of the town
afforded him his educational privileges. He was a
youth of seventeen when in 1865 he entered business life as
a bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery house in Zanesville,
there remaining for ten years, during which time he became
somewhat familiar with the trade. On the expiration of
that period he felt that his experience and earnings
justified his embarkation in business on his own account and
he became a partner in a wholesale dry goods
enterprise in Zanesville, the firm being known as
Black & Company.
A year
later, however, Mr. Adamson sold out and
sought the broader field offered in the larger city of
Dayton, removing hither in 1881. Here he entered into
partnership with the late George W. Kneisley,
under the firm style of G. W. Kneisley & Company,
in the conduct of a wholesale grocery house. This
partnership was maintained for four years, at the end of
which time Mr. Adamson disposed of his
interest and succeeded John Bright in the
firm of Bright & Crosley, the name of being
then changed to Crosley & Adamson. When Mr.
Crosley died in 1896 the business was incorporated
under the name of the W. L. Adamson Company
and has so continued to the present time. The volume
of trade has constantly increased and the house enjoys an
excellent reputation for dependable methods, for promptness
in delivery and also for the excellent line of goods
carried. The resourceful business ability of
Mr. Adamson has led him into other commercial and
industrial connections and he is now a director of the
Western Ohio Creamery Company of Greenville, Ohio, a
director in the Green & Green Company,
cracker manufacturers of Dayton, and a stockholder in the
Fourth National Bank.
Pleasantly
situated in his home life, Mr. Adamson was
married in 1871, in Zanesville, Ohio, to Miss
Catharine E. Manley and they now have four
daughters and two sons, the family occupying a prominent
position in the social circles of the city. In
politics Mr. Adamson is an
independent republican, voting at national elections for the
candidates of the party but never considering himself bound
by party ties at local elections. He belongs to the
Grace Methodist Episcopal church, is a director of the Young
Men's Christian Association and is interested in all those
lines of activity which tend to promote material,
intellectual, social and moral progress in his adopted city.
His life has at all times been actuated by high and
honorable principles and his sterling traits of character
are the foundation upon which he has builded
his success, his record being at all times such as will bear
close investigation and scrutiny.
Source:
The History of the City of Dayton
and
The Montgomery County, Ohio
by Rev. A. W. Drury - 1909 -
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WILLIAM
M. ADELBERGER is now enjoying a gratifying trade as a
dealer in cement and lime, his business having reached a
substantial annual figure. He has always resided in
Dayton where his birth occurred Sept. 2, 1876, and he is the
eldest of the three children of Philip and Eleonora (Boedeker)
Adelberger. The father, a native of Germany, came
to America in early life and, establishing his home in
Dayton, was married in this city. Unto him and his
wife were born two sons and a daughter: William M.,
Elizabeth, the wife of Charles E. Klugel, of
Dayton; and George, who is engaged in the meat
business with his father in this city. The mother
passed away in 1904, leaving behind her many friends.
After continuing his education in the public schools
until he had completed the work of the eighth grade,
William M. Adelberger further pursued his studies in the
Miami Commercial College, from which he was graduated in
1894, thus qualifying for the responsibilities which come
with entrance into business life. He afterward worked
for C. A. Starr, a dealer in building materials, by
whom he was first employed as office boy, while in various
promotions he made substantial advance to the position of
bookkeeper and general manager. He was acting in the
dual capacity at the time of Mr. Starr's death on the
24th of December, 1902. Following the demise of his
employer he bought out the business in connection Edmund
C. Linxweiler, and the firm has since been known as the
Star Coal & Cement Company. They handle coal, cement,
lime and other building materials and have succeeded in
building up a large and satisfactory trade. Mr.
Adelberger is also a director of the Market Savings
Bank, for his success in other lines has enabled him to make
judicious investment in bank stock.
In 1905 in Lancaster, Ohio, was celebrated the marriage
of Mr. Adelberger and Miss Clara Alice Wyman.
Their home is now blessed by the presence of a little son,
William, Jr. In politics Mr. Adelberger
is a democrat but not active as a worker in the party ranks.
He belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge, to the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Dayton
Turngemeinde and to St. John's German Lutheran church.
These organizations, all of which inculcate a spirit of
sociability, fraternity and morality, find a stalwart
champion in Mr. Adelberger, whose many good qualities
are recognized by his extensive circle of friends in his
native city.
Source: The History of the City of Dayton
and
The Montgomery County, Ohio
by Rev. A. W. Drury - 1909 -
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