Pflueger, Ernest A., b.1855 PA -m. Ruth Seiberling, dau. of John F. & Catherine L. (Miller) Seiberling
from a book found on HeritageQuestOnline.com -not in my line as far as I know
Title: Akron and Summit County
Authors: Grismer, Karl Hiram
City of Publication: Akron, Ohio
Publisher: Summit County Historical Society
Date: 1952
Page Count: 831
Notes: Date of publication suggested by OCLCQ in OCLC
"Biographies": p. [647]-821
Reproduction of original in the Newberry Library
Includes bibliographical references (p. [822]) and index
ill., maps, ports.
Reel/Fiche Number: (Genealogy and local history; LH14656)
Akron and Summit County, Ohio
Ernest A. Pflueger was born in Erie, PA, December 6, 1866, a son of Ernest F. and Julia (Dunnebeck) Pflueger. He attended Akron schools until he was 14 years old when he joined his father in the manufacture of fishing tackle. Their business was incorporated in 1886 as the Enterprise Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Pflueger remained with the company all his life, first serving as secretary-treasurer, as president from 1913 to 1942, and as chairman of the board until he died on January 6, 1944.
He was a charter member of the Portage Country Club and Akron City Club, a 32nd degree Mason, and a former director of the First-Second National Bank.
On October 5, 1895, Mr. Pfleuger was married to Ruth Seiberling, daughter of John F. and Catherine L. (Miller) Seiberling. They had four sons: John S., Theodore S., William S. and Robert S.
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Ernest F. Pflueger, founder of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, was born in Germany in 1843. Early left an orphan, he came to the United States when a boy and spent his youthful days in Buffalo where he learned the molder’s trade.
Coming to Akron in 1868, Mr. Pflueger worked for the Erie Stove Company several years and then started a grocery store which he operated until 1880.
While still in the grocery business, Mr. Pflueger invented a number of gadgets of various kinds on which he obtained patents. One of his patents was for a glass minnow filled with luminous paint which he was certain would make an ideal fish lure.
Mr. Pflueger first manufactures the luminous bait and other devices in the kitchen of his home; in 1880 he opened a small plant which in 1886 was incorporated as the Enterprise Manufacturing Company. He continued as head of the company until he died in 1900.
Mr. Pflueger was married to Julia Dunnebeck, who died in 1905. They had eight children.