Jacob Freund
Jacob Freund is at the head of two important industrial concerns at Winton Place, Cincinnati, -- the Jacob Freund Roofing Company and the Cincinnati Roofing, Tile & Terra Cotta Company. He is one of the pioneers in the roofing business, having been identified therewith as a workman and manufacturer for forty-five years. His birth occurred in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 15th of January, 1854, his father being Leonard Freund, a native of Germany. He attended school until thirteen years of age and then learned the roofing business, first working as a journeyman and later acting as superintendent for different concern of Cincinnati. In 1879 he became a partner in the old firm of James Hunter & Company on Central avenue, which in 1883 was succeeded by the Jacob Freund Roofing Company. On the 8th of March 1892, the Jacob Freund Roofing Company was incorporated with a capital stock of forty thousand dollars, while in 1896 the Cincinnati Roofing, Tile and Terra Cotta Company was established and incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars. Jacob Freund is the president and general manager of both these important industries and has developed an extensive and profitable business in the manufacture of galvanized cornices, ornamental tile and slate roofing. About one hundred men are employed in the two plants. The manufacture of tile roofing, was begun in 1897. The plant of the Jacob Freund Roofing Company was destroyed by fire in May 1909, and a larger and more commodious structure was erected on its site. Our subject has earned for himself an enviable reputation as a careful man of business and in his dealings is known for his prompt and honorable methods, which have won him the deserved and unbounded confidence of his fellowmen.
In 1870 Mr. Freund was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Pancera, by whom he has one daughter, now Mrs. Magdalene Meyer of Cincinnati. Fraternally he is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has spent his entire life in Cincinnati and has long been numbered among its prosperous and representative citizens.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III, by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912