Albert Gano Erkenbrecher
Albert Gano Erkenbrecher, a son of Andrew and Amanda (Meyers) Erkenbrecher, was born in Cincinnati October 8, 1858. He attended the public schools of this city and was sent by his father to Europe to complete his academic and business education. For three years he was a student in the schools of Hamburg, Germany, and then he secured a situation as an apprenticed merchant in a Hamburg house that represented his father's starch factory. He learned the business thoroughly and in 1880, at the age of twenty-two, returned to Cincinnati and became actively associated with his father in the manufacture of starch. Upon the death of the latter, in 1885, the son remained in charge of the business and so continued until 1890 when, with other leading starch manufacturers of the country, he assisted in organizing the National Starch Company. He has since been a member of the board of directors of this company and manager of the Cincinnati branch, a responsibility for which he is thoroughly adapted, having been identified with this line of business ever since his boyhood. Mr. Gano Erkenbrecher is a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and served for one term as treasurer of that body. Socially, he is identified with the Queen City Club and the Lincoln Club. He is a member of the board of directors of the Zoological Garden in which he takes a very lively interest, and has been a generous contributor for many years toward that worthy object. His life has been busy, active and useful. His genial, social qualities have won for him the friendship of all with whom he has come in contact. Mr. Erkenbrecher is unmarried and makes his home in Avondale.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912