Carl W. E. Boegel
Carl W. E. Boegel., proprietor of the Star Carpet Cleaning Works, at No. 430 North Pierce street, Lima, has been a resident of this city for the past 14 years. He was born in Hesse-Nassau, Germany, November 16, 1866, and came to America in 1890.
Mr. Boegel was educated in his native land, and there learned the tanning business, at which he worked in Athens, Ohio. From Athens he came to Lima, in April, 1892, and for three years was in the employ of Schultheis Brothers, tanners. In order to perfect himself in America business methods, he then took a course in the Lima Business College. Shortly afterward he established the Star Carpet Cleaning Works. In this establishment all the cleansing is done by compressed air it being the first of its kind in this section, if not in the State. The use of compressed air has completely revolutionized the industry, and Mr. Boegel's enterprised has met with most satisfying results the new method being acknowledged as both labor- saving and sanitary. Mr. Boegel has also both oil and real estate interests and is one of the city's substantial men.
On September 7, 1893, Mr. Boegel was married to Barbara Stelzer who was born in Rhein-Hessen Germany and was 11 years old when her parents brought her to America. They located at Spencerville, Ohio, where she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Boegel have two children Katharina Christina and Elizabeth Ruth. The family belongs to the German Reformed Church, in which Mr. Boegel has been Sunday-school superintendent for over four years. His fraternal associations are with the Knights of Pythias and the Masons, being a Knight Templar. With his wife he belongs to the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Boegel is a man whose honorable busines methods and straight-forward, exemplary life have brought him the respect and confidence of his fellow- citizens.