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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Standard History of
STARK COUNTY, OHIO
An authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular
Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and
Social Development. A Chronicle of the People, with Family
Lineage and Memoirs.
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JOHN H. LEHMAN
Supervising Editor
Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors.
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2 (pgs. 391 - 760)
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FRED WERT JUSTUS.
A business that has been growing rapidly for fifteen years
and reflects the keen ability and aggressive enterprise of Fred W. Justus is
the Justus Plumbing & Heating Company, of which
Mr. Justus is president and manager. This is one
of the largest concerns in its line in Stark County, and has
been steadily pushed toward greater success by Mr. Justus,
who is a native son of Massillon and had a thorough training
and expert knowledge of the plumbing business in all its
departments prior to putting up the shop of his own nearly
fifteen years ago.
Born at Massillon Feb. 18, 1879, he is a son of
William Myron and Mary Alice (Wert) Justus. The
grandfather was James Justus and many of the old time
citizens will recall the firm of Warwick & Justus
which was in business at Massillon for many years, and of
which James Justus was an active partner,
W. Myron Justus was born at Millport, just north of
Massillon, and at the time of his early death in 1880 was a
bookkeeper for the firm of Warwick & Justus.
Fred Justus’ mother, who is still living, was
born in Massillon, daughter of John B. Wert, who came
from Pennsylvania to Stark County in the early days and
recently died in his eighty-eighth year.
Fred W. Justus grew up in Massillon, attended
the public schools and also had a course in the Actual
Business College. His business career began with the
firm of Hemperly & Jacobs, hardware dealers,
and after a clerkship in that store for about six months, he
learned the trade of steam fitting and plumbing, and was
employed as a journeyman in Cleveland, Chicago and
Connellsville, Pennsylvania. With this preliminary
experience Mr. Justus returned to Massillon and in
February, 1901, opened a plumbing shop under his own name.
This is the business which by successive stages has
developed into one of the largest of its class in Stark
County. In September, 1907, the Justus Plumbing
& Heating Company was incorporated, with Mr.
Justus as president and manager.
A young man successful in business, he has also given
much time and energy to the development of Massillon’s civic
and commercial interests. He has allied himself as a
working member of various civic organizations, and is a
director of the Massillon Board of Trade and first vice
president of the Massillon Chamber of Commerce. He was
chairman of the Committee on Organization for the Chamber of
Commerce in 1915, and one of the leaders in the whirlwind
campaign which brought 1,040 names to the membership list in
a very brief time. At present he is safety director of
the city. Mr. Justus is a past exalted ruler of
the Massillon Lodge of Elks, and is affiliated with Clinton
Lodge, No. 45, F. & A. M., and also belongs to the Elks and
Masonic clubs. He married Jessie Drake,
daughter of Franklin P. Drake, who is manager at
Massillon for the Western Union Telegraph Company.
* Source: A Standard History of Stark County, Ohio
- Vol. II - Publ. 1916 - Page 756 |
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