Carl B. Rettig
Biography
Biography
CARL B. RETTIG has the progressiveness and energy that make him an effective executive in his service as sales manager for the Waddell Steel company located in the City of Niles, Trumbull County, a corporation that has done much to further the civic and industrial advancement of this vital Ohio city.
Mr. Rettig was born at Willard, Huron County, Ohio, on the 5th of October, 1893. His father, John Leonard Rettig, was born near Holgate, Henry County, Ohio, in the year 1840, and was a resident of Willard, Huron County, at the time of his death, in 1900. He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and during the course of his entire independent career he continued his successful association with farm enterprise. In 1870 he purchased and established his home on an excellent farm near Willard, Huron County, and he continued actively as one of the representative farmers of that county until 1893, when he retired from his farm to the village of Willard, where he remained until his death. His widow survived him about nine years, and her death there occurred in 1909. Both were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, and his political alignment was with the republican party. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republican, he having been a member of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war and having given gallant service in the great conflict by which the integrity of the nation was preserved. Mrs. Rettig whose maiden name was Hannah Carson, was born near Holgate, Henry County, in 1849, both she and her husband having been reared and educated in that county, where their marriage was solemnized. Of the children the eldest, Elmer E., is a retired farmer residing at Baltimore, Fairfield County, this state; Mrs. Nellie Jackson, whose husband is a railroad employe, residing at Willard, was thirty-six years of age, at the time of her death; Melvin O. is a successful lawyer in the City of Toledo; Adelbert S. is engaged in the steel brokerage business at Kansas City, Missouri; Lettie is the wife of Albert Behn, a railroad machinist, and they reside at Willard, Huron County; and Carl B., of this sketch is the youngest of the number.
Carl B. Rettig was graduated from the high school at Willard as a member of the class of 1910, and thereafter he entered historic old Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated in 1914, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he having there become affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. In the year of his graduation Mr. Rettig entered the employ of the Briar Hill Steel Company at Youngstown, Mahoning County, and about two years later he retired from this position with this corporation to enter the nation's military service in connection with the troubles on the Mexican border. He enlisted July 1, 1916, and was assigned to service with the Third Field Hospital Corps, a Youngstown organization, with which he served ten months on the Texas-Mexican border. When the United States entered the World war, in April, 1917, Mr. Rettig was sent to the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and there on the 15th of August, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He was shortly afterward assigned to service with the Twenty-fourth United States Cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, and three months later he was transferred with this command to Houston, Texas. One month later he was assigned to the Twentieth Field Artillery at Leon Springs, near San Antonio, that state, and four months later he entered the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he remained ten months. He was then transferred to Camp Upton, New York, and on the 15th of May, 1918, he embarked at Montreal, Canada, for overseas service. He landed with this command at Liverpool, England, and thence proceeded across the channel to France, where he landed, at Le Havre, on the 1st of June, 1918. He took part in the now historic Vosges and St. Mihiel offensives, as well as those of the Meuse-Argonne and the Metz, and in July, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, the following October having recorded his advancement to the brevet rank of captain. After the signing of the armistice he was with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany, where he was stationed at Luxemburg. After his return to the United States he continued in service in the Regular Army until October, 1920, when he received his honorable discharge. For nine months thereafter he was engaged in the brokerage business at El Paso, Texas, and he then came to Niles, Ohio, in May, 1921, and on the first of the following August he was made secretary of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, serving until February, 1924, when he resigned to take up his present work.
Mr. Rettig is a thoroughgoing republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church. In his home city Mr. Rettig's Masonic affiliations are with Mahoning Lodge No. 394, Free and Accepted Masons, and Niles Chapter No. 223, Royal Arch Masons, of which last named organization he is the secretary (1923). At Warren, the county seat, he is affiliated with Warren Council No. 66, Royal and Select Masters, and Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar. His Scottish Rite affiliations are with the Consistory at San Antonio, Texas, in the southern jurisdiction and in the same he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which is a Noble of El Maida Temple of the Mystic Shrine at El Paso, Texas. He is one of the most loyal and popular members of William McKinley Post No. 126, American Legion, at Niles, and had the distinction of serving as its commander in 1921.
August 18, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rettig and Miss Selma Evans, who was born and reared at Niles, and who is a popular figure in the representative social activities of her native city.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. V, pp. 16-17.
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Mr. Rettig was born at Willard, Huron County, Ohio, on the 5th of October, 1893. His father, John Leonard Rettig, was born near Holgate, Henry County, Ohio, in the year 1840, and was a resident of Willard, Huron County, at the time of his death, in 1900. He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm and during the course of his entire independent career he continued his successful association with farm enterprise. In 1870 he purchased and established his home on an excellent farm near Willard, Huron County, and he continued actively as one of the representative farmers of that county until 1893, when he retired from his farm to the village of Willard, where he remained until his death. His widow survived him about nine years, and her death there occurred in 1909. Both were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, and his political alignment was with the republican party. He was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republican, he having been a member of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war and having given gallant service in the great conflict by which the integrity of the nation was preserved. Mrs. Rettig whose maiden name was Hannah Carson, was born near Holgate, Henry County, in 1849, both she and her husband having been reared and educated in that county, where their marriage was solemnized. Of the children the eldest, Elmer E., is a retired farmer residing at Baltimore, Fairfield County, this state; Mrs. Nellie Jackson, whose husband is a railroad employe, residing at Willard, was thirty-six years of age, at the time of her death; Melvin O. is a successful lawyer in the City of Toledo; Adelbert S. is engaged in the steel brokerage business at Kansas City, Missouri; Lettie is the wife of Albert Behn, a railroad machinist, and they reside at Willard, Huron County; and Carl B., of this sketch is the youngest of the number.
Carl B. Rettig was graduated from the high school at Willard as a member of the class of 1910, and thereafter he entered historic old Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated in 1914, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he having there become affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. In the year of his graduation Mr. Rettig entered the employ of the Briar Hill Steel Company at Youngstown, Mahoning County, and about two years later he retired from this position with this corporation to enter the nation's military service in connection with the troubles on the Mexican border. He enlisted July 1, 1916, and was assigned to service with the Third Field Hospital Corps, a Youngstown organization, with which he served ten months on the Texas-Mexican border. When the United States entered the World war, in April, 1917, Mr. Rettig was sent to the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and there on the 15th of August, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He was shortly afterward assigned to service with the Twenty-fourth United States Cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, and three months later he was transferred with this command to Houston, Texas. One month later he was assigned to the Twentieth Field Artillery at Leon Springs, near San Antonio, that state, and four months later he entered the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he remained ten months. He was then transferred to Camp Upton, New York, and on the 15th of May, 1918, he embarked at Montreal, Canada, for overseas service. He landed with this command at Liverpool, England, and thence proceeded across the channel to France, where he landed, at Le Havre, on the 1st of June, 1918. He took part in the now historic Vosges and St. Mihiel offensives, as well as those of the Meuse-Argonne and the Metz, and in July, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, the following October having recorded his advancement to the brevet rank of captain. After the signing of the armistice he was with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany, where he was stationed at Luxemburg. After his return to the United States he continued in service in the Regular Army until October, 1920, when he received his honorable discharge. For nine months thereafter he was engaged in the brokerage business at El Paso, Texas, and he then came to Niles, Ohio, in May, 1921, and on the first of the following August he was made secretary of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, serving until February, 1924, when he resigned to take up his present work.
Mr. Rettig is a thoroughgoing republican in politics and he and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church. In his home city Mr. Rettig's Masonic affiliations are with Mahoning Lodge No. 394, Free and Accepted Masons, and Niles Chapter No. 223, Royal Arch Masons, of which last named organization he is the secretary (1923). At Warren, the county seat, he is affiliated with Warren Council No. 66, Royal and Select Masters, and Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar. His Scottish Rite affiliations are with the Consistory at San Antonio, Texas, in the southern jurisdiction and in the same he has received the thirty-second degree, besides which is a Noble of El Maida Temple of the Mystic Shrine at El Paso, Texas. He is one of the most loyal and popular members of William McKinley Post No. 126, American Legion, at Niles, and had the distinction of serving as its commander in 1921.
August 18, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rettig and Miss Selma Evans, who was born and reared at Niles, and who is a popular figure in the representative social activities of her native city.
Source: History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical, The American Historical Society, 1925, vol. V, pp. 16-17.
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