C. F. Stolzenbach
C. F. Stolzenbach, president of the Stolzenbach Baking Company, and of the Allen County Building & Loan Association, is a prominent figure among the business men of Lima. Mr. Stolzenbach was born at Roseville, Muskingum County, Ohio, where he was reared and educated.
After completing his schooling, Mr. Stolzenbach entered his uncle's bakery at Zanesville, Ohio, with whom he remained for six years, in this time becoming a skilled baker. His uncle, Conrad Stolzenbach, is still in the business and is associated with the National Biscuit Company. From Zanesville our subject went to Pittsburg, Detroit and Columbus, working in all these cities and learnng every chemical secret of the trade as well as perfecting himself in the manufacture of every kind of bakery product.
Mr. Stolzenbach then located at Newcomerstown, where he opened up a first- class bakery; but he soon found that the place was too small for the goods he was able to put upon the market and he remained there only until 1889, when he bought the Diamond bakery at Lima, entering into partnership with a Mr. Benton under the firm name of Stolzenbach & Benton. After conducting the business for six months under that style, Mr. Stolzenbach bought the Benton interest and admitted his father to partnership. The new firm became Stolzenbach & Company which continued thus until 1904, when the business was incorporated as the Stolzenbach Baking Company, with a capital stock of $30,000, fully paid up. The officers of the company are: C. F. Stolzenbach, president; J. H. Stolzenbach, vice-president; and Martin Stolzenbach, secretary and treasurer. The plant turns out weekly some 35,000 loaves, their specialties being "Butternut" and "Mother's" bread, both these brands being in large demand. The plant is equipped with every modern and sanitary appliance, its capacity being 10,000 loaves daily.
In 1892 Mr. Stolzenbach was married to Magdalena Hickey, who is a daughter of Henry Hickey, of Putnam county, and they have six children: Edward, Mary Louise, Magdalena, Charles Henry, Robert W., and an infant daughter. The family belongs to the Lutheran Church and Mr. Stolzenbach has been a deacon of St. Paul's congregation for the past nine years. Mr. Stolzenbach is a prominent member of the National Bakery Association of the United States. He attended the annual meeting of this body at the Arlington Hotel, Washington City, on September 11, 1905, joining the Chicago contingent on a special car. He is one of Lima's capitalists, a stockholder and director in The Lima Telephone & Telegraph Company and is treasurer of the National Roofing Tile Company. For a number of years under both Republican and Democratic administrations, he has been a member of the city Board of Health. He is always prominent in all public-spirited movements, gives largely to charity, and fulfills every duty incumbent upon a conscientious, broad-minded man and citizen.