Leo R. Meyer
Biography
Biography
LEO R. MEYER. A taste for mechanics has been a leading factor in the pronounced success that has rewarded the business endeavors of one of Elyria's substantial young business men, Leo R. Meyer, president and treasurer of the Leo R. Meyer Motor Company, successor of the Elyria Garage Company. In early manhood other and profitable vocations awaited him, but he fortunately recognized his natural talents and took the trouble to develop them, and now is at the head of one of the most prosperous enterprises in his line in this section of Ohio.
Mr. Meyer comes of old Ohio families. He was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, June 21, 1887, and is a son of John W. and Josephine (Lais) Meyer, the former of whom was born at Havana, Huron County, and the latter of Monroeville, Ohio. The father was in the meat business, and conducted a market at Norwalk until 1905, and then transferred his interests to Elyria, where he continued in business some years under the name of the Elyria Provision Company, but now lives retired and is one of Elyria's highly respected citizens.
Leo R. Meyer attended the grade schools and the high school at Norwalk, Ohio, until he was sixteen years old, when, having finally secured his father's consent, he became a machinist apprentice in the shops of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company, where he continued for four years, emerging well qualified and well satisfied. A little before this time his father had removed to Elyria, and subsequently the father and son became associated in business and conducted the affairs of the Elyria Provision Company for about five years, of which company Leo R. Meyer became president. Mr. Meyer then moved to Detroit, Michigan, where for eight months he was identified with the mechanical department of the Fisher Body Company and investigated along other lines in which he was interested, but in August, 1910, he returned to Elyria, acquired stock in the Elyria Garage Company and became its general manager and treasurer. Under his able and intelligent management the business was greatly developed, and in March, 1921, upon its merging into the Leo R. Meyer Motor Company, he was elected president and treasurer of the company. The other officers of the company are J. Ogden Meyer, vice president; Lillian G. Meyer, secretary; Leo R. Meyer, Jr., J.M. Shibley, Alvin John Meyer.
The company are distributors of the Dodge Brothers motor vehicles and have been identified with this manufacture since their inception into the manufacturing and the marketing of their product under their own name since 1914. The company conducts a sales and service station in addition to dealing in automobile parts and accessories, carrying the most complete line of parts and accessories available in this district. Mr. Meyer is not only the responsible head of this company, but is, as it were, its dynamic force, his energizing spirit being shown in every department. His interests penetrate the owning of valuable real estate in Elyria and the county, and he is also identified with the Perry-Fay Company and the Lorain County Savings and Trust Company and numerous other corporations.
Mr. Meyer married, on November 7, 1916, Miss Lillian G. Graver, who was born at South Amherst, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Graver, who are natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have three children, J. Ogden, Leo R., Jr., and Alvin John. Mr. Meyer is a republican in politics, but has never consented to accept any public office, although he has many friends and is a popular and respected citizen well qualified in many ways. He belongs to the Elks Lodge, to the Elyria Automobile Club and to the Automobile Dealers' Association of America.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. III, pp. 184-185.
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Mr. Meyer comes of old Ohio families. He was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, June 21, 1887, and is a son of John W. and Josephine (Lais) Meyer, the former of whom was born at Havana, Huron County, and the latter of Monroeville, Ohio. The father was in the meat business, and conducted a market at Norwalk until 1905, and then transferred his interests to Elyria, where he continued in business some years under the name of the Elyria Provision Company, but now lives retired and is one of Elyria's highly respected citizens.
Leo R. Meyer attended the grade schools and the high school at Norwalk, Ohio, until he was sixteen years old, when, having finally secured his father's consent, he became a machinist apprentice in the shops of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company, where he continued for four years, emerging well qualified and well satisfied. A little before this time his father had removed to Elyria, and subsequently the father and son became associated in business and conducted the affairs of the Elyria Provision Company for about five years, of which company Leo R. Meyer became president. Mr. Meyer then moved to Detroit, Michigan, where for eight months he was identified with the mechanical department of the Fisher Body Company and investigated along other lines in which he was interested, but in August, 1910, he returned to Elyria, acquired stock in the Elyria Garage Company and became its general manager and treasurer. Under his able and intelligent management the business was greatly developed, and in March, 1921, upon its merging into the Leo R. Meyer Motor Company, he was elected president and treasurer of the company. The other officers of the company are J. Ogden Meyer, vice president; Lillian G. Meyer, secretary; Leo R. Meyer, Jr., J.M. Shibley, Alvin John Meyer.
The company are distributors of the Dodge Brothers motor vehicles and have been identified with this manufacture since their inception into the manufacturing and the marketing of their product under their own name since 1914. The company conducts a sales and service station in addition to dealing in automobile parts and accessories, carrying the most complete line of parts and accessories available in this district. Mr. Meyer is not only the responsible head of this company, but is, as it were, its dynamic force, his energizing spirit being shown in every department. His interests penetrate the owning of valuable real estate in Elyria and the county, and he is also identified with the Perry-Fay Company and the Lorain County Savings and Trust Company and numerous other corporations.
Mr. Meyer married, on November 7, 1916, Miss Lillian G. Graver, who was born at South Amherst, Ohio, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Graver, who are natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have three children, J. Ogden, Leo R., Jr., and Alvin John. Mr. Meyer is a republican in politics, but has never consented to accept any public office, although he has many friends and is a popular and respected citizen well qualified in many ways. He belongs to the Elks Lodge, to the Elyria Automobile Club and to the Automobile Dealers' Association of America.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. III, pp. 184-185.
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