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Charles Adam Bertsch

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Birth	:	20 Oct 1851 Ohio, USA
Death	:	25 Mar 1936
Burial	:	East Germantown Lutheran Cemetery, East Germantown, Wayne County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8169594, -85.1367264
Description	:	Married to Susan Howard 1878 Children: Lawrence Howard, Walter Raymond, Nina Ethel, Joshua Alvin, Harry Evert, Mary Elizabeth, Hazel Anna, Ruth Ophelia, Robert Oscar and Charles Russell Bertsch Charles Adam Bertsch was born at Hickory Flat, Butler county, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1851, and came to Wayne county with his parents in his seventh year; and with the exception of several short intervals has spent his life in Wayne county. He received his early scholastic training in the public schools of Wayne county and began his independent career by renting and operating for a time a grist mill near Hagerstown. He is... Read More	Married to Susan Howard 1878 Children: Lawrence Howard, Walter Raymond, Nina Ethel, Joshua Alvin, Harry Evert, Mary Elizabeth, Hazel Anna, Ruth Ophelia, Robert Oscar and Charles Russell Bertsch Charles Adam Bertsch was born at Hickory Flat, Butler county, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1851, and came to Wayne county with his parents in his seventh year; and with the exception of several short intervals has spent his life in Wayne county. He received his early scholastic training in the public schools of Wayne county and began his independent career by renting and operating for a time a grist mill near Hagerstown. He is the inventor of the Diamond Burr Dresser. While still engaged in the grist mill business he purchased, fattened, and sold cattle and hogs. and later continued in the cattle business in Missouri one year. Returning to Wayne county, he purchased and operated two meat markets in Cambridge City and finally formed a partnership in that business with his brother, J. J. Bertsch. About this time he again spent several months in the West - in Kansas - buying, fattening, and shipping cattle and hogs. Later he and his brother, J. J. Bertsch, purchased the Cambridge City Agricultural & Machine Works, which they operated and managed under that name, manufacturing agricultural implements, until the firm name and kind of output were changed, in 1884, Charles A. Bertsch having invented several valuable and useful patents during that time in the line of agricultural implements. In 1884 the firm name became Bertsch & Company, but the ownership remained unchanged. At this time the company began to build small tinner's squaring shears and forming rolls, and the present business has been built up by the manufacture of that line of tools - punches, shears, and rolls for punching, cutting, and rolling plates, structural shapes, and sheet metal. They are used in shipyards, railroad shops, rolling mills, sheet iron shops, boiler shops, structural iron shops, tank works, etc. The company has built several of these machines, each of which weighed fifty-five tons. They have been shipped to every State in the Union and to Canada, Australia, South America, Japan, and England. The brother, J. J. Bertsch, died in 1893, and in 1897 Charles A. Bertsch purchased from his brother's heirs their interest in the business, and has since been the sole owner and proprietor. From his boyhood days he has been a loyal supporter and worker in the Lutheran church at East Germantown and is one of its most liberal contributors. In the matter of politics he espouses the Democratic cause. Mr. Bertsch married Miss Susanna Anna Howard, of Cambridge City, daughter of the late Isaiah and Mary Ann (Berg) Howard. Isaiah Howard was born in York county, Pennsylvania, Feb. 22, 1813. Ten children carne to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertsch, and of them the following specific mention is appropriately made: Lawrence Howard Bertsch was born Oct. 18, 1879; graduated in the Cambridge City High School in 1897, and in the Indianapolis Business University in 1898; from 1898 to 1901 he was a student at Earlham College; received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the Indiana University in 1902, and that of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1907; is the mechanical engineer for the firm of Bertsch & Company, at Cambridge City; in politics is a Democrat and was the Democratic candidate for Joint Representative from Wayne and Fayette counties in 1910; is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, the Masonic lodge, the Richmond Country Club, and his religious affiliations are with the Lutheran church. Walter Raymond Bertsch was born July 18, 1881, at Cambridge City; was educated in the Cambridge City High School and at Indiana University; is employed as assistant manager of the firm of Bertsch & Company; is a Republican in politics and is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Nina Ethel Bertsch was born Nov. 29, 1882. Joshua Alvin Bertsch was born at Cambridge City, March 18, 1885; graduated in the Cambridge City High School in 1905; from 1905 to 1907 was a student of mechanical engineering in the University of Michigan, and from 1907 to 1909 in the Indiana University, and is the present superintendent of the firm of Bertsch & Company; he is independent in politics and has membership in the Sigma Chi fraternity. Harry Evert Bertsch was born in Cambridge City, Nov. 29, 1886; graduated in the Cambridge City High School in 1906; in the years 1906-1907 was a student of mechanical engineering in the University of Michigan, and from 1908 to 191O.in the Indiana University, and is now assistant superintendent of the firm of Bertsch & Company; he is independent in politics and has membership in the Sigma Chi fraternity. The names of the other children, with the dates of their respective births follow: Mary Elizabeth, April 27, 1889; Hazel Anna, April 16, 1892; Ruth Ophelia, Jan. 6, 1894; Robert Oscar, Jan. 15, 1896; and Charles Russell, born March 23, 1900, died on March 27, of the same year. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Bertsch was Henry Howard, born in England, and her maternal grandfather was David Berg, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, of German parents. David Berg was married on Feb. 22, 1820, to Magdalena Newcomer, born in 1782, and her parents also came from Germany. 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Longitude: -85.1367264

Family Members:

Parent

Adam Bertsch

(1825 - 1891)

Elizabeth Jacoby Bertsch

(1828 - 1886)

Spouse

Susan Howard Bertsch

(1853 - 1937)

Siblings

Mary Jane Bertsch Myers

(1847 - 1931)

Susannah Bertsch Wissler

(1849 - 1881)

John Jacob Bertsch

(1850 - 1892)

Henry Bertsch

(1857 - 1940)

Alonzo Clinton Bertsch

(1859 - 1906)

Children

Capt Lawrence Howard Bertsch

(1879 - 1918)

Walter Raymond Bertsch

(1881 - 1926)

Ethel Bertsch Middleton

(1882 - 1934)

Mary Elizabeth Bertsch

(1889 - 1953)

Robert Oscar Bertsch

(1896 - 1967)

Charles R. Bertsch

(1900 - 1900)

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