Chair Company Has New Factory Superintendent

 The Marietta Daily Times, September 4, 1945

Carl A. Johnson, former vice-president and general manager of the Cron-Kills Company of Piqua, has been appointed to the position of general factory superintendent of Marietta Chair Company's plant and assumed his duties today. He will move his family to Marietta as soon as a suitable dwelling can be found.

In supervision of the manufacture of the Marietta plant, Johnson will not be new, as he has spent his entire life in the furniture manufacturing business.

The former superintendent, M. H. Kantzer, who came here from Peru, Indiana, in 1936, has resigned. Kantzer and his wife reside at 208 Wooster St. He has not disclosed his plans for the future.

During the war Marietta Chair Company has made many thousands of chairs for the various departments of the U.S. Government, but has not manufactured products requiring other than wood working machinery and equipment, and therefore the task of reconversion is not as difficult as it otherwise would be.

Established in 1858 this company has furnished furniture to the retail trade throughout the country through its various sales departments. For some time that part of the line designed for civilian use has been marketed through the sales department of Marietta Chair and Furniture Company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marietta Chair Company, with warerooms and show rooms in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. R. R. Schuldt, who resides in Pittsburgh, is the president of both corporations, and visits Marietta and Cincinnati at regular intervals in an executive capacity.

Without much pretense Marietta Chair Company has gone along through floods and depressions as well as during periods of prosperity, and if it were not for the fact that the plant is located near the center of population of Marietta, perhaps many citizens would not know that so many people are occupied within its boundaries. Some of the employees have been employed nowhere else during their whole lives.

The company has a large backlog of orders on its books and will immediately expand its operations, making room for additional workmen. Necessarily this will be a gradual process because of the difficulty in obtaining certain materials.