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From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909), Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897)
HRTHUR MELVILLE KITTREDGE, general superintendent of the Barney & Smith Car company and one of the representative citizens of Dayton, Ohio, was born in this city January 9, 1854. He is a son of Oliver and Julia (Estabrook) Kittredge, who came to Dayton from Massachusetts in 1838, and both of whom are still living, the father being in his eighty-first year and the mother in her seventy-sixth year. Oliver Kittredge was the first agent of the first express company in Dayton. He was also a clerk in the post-office at a very early date. In politics he was a whig.
Arthur M. Kittredge received his education in the Dayton city schools, leaving them at the age of sixteen years, after having passed successfully the high school entrance examination. He began life for himself by serving an apprenticeship at the galvanized iron and cornice-working trade, which trade he followed, having in time been made by promotion foreman of the shop, then superintendent, until 1877, and being out of the city from 1871 to 1877. Following this he was bookkeeper for a wholesale house, and subsequently was traveling salesman for four years for the H. W. Merriam Shoe company, of New Jersey. In January, 1884, he became connected with the Barney & Smith Car company, and was soon made general superintendent of the entire plant, which is the largest car-works in the west, and one of the largest manufacturing plants in the state of Ohio. Mr. Kittredge is a director in the Miami Building association of the East End, and is also director in the Y. M. C. A. and an active member of Memorial Presbyterian church. He was married in this city in 1875 to Mary J. Broadwell, of the old and well-known family of that name in Dayton. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Kittredge, as follows: Harry G., Arthur L., Mary J. and
Helen L.
Mr. Kittredge, while closely devoted to the duties entailed upon him by a responsible position, is interested in public questions and movements, and especially in the educational and religious fields.
As printed in Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ARTHUR MELVILLE KITTREDGE.
Many theories have been advanced as to the causation of success but every logical thinker arrives at the same conclusion — that intelligently directed industry is the basis of all advancement in the business world. There is no exciting or thrilling chapter in the life history of A. AI. Kittredge but it is the record of a man whose persistent purpose and unfaltering commercial integrity have brought him to a place of prominence in industrial circles, for he is now president of the Barney & Smith Car Company, controlling one of the most important productive industries of the state.
Trie is one. of Dayton’s native sons and the city rejoices in his advancement, knowing that it has been well won. He was born January 9, 1854, of the marriage of Oliver and Julia (Estabrook) Kittredge, who came to Dayton from Massachusetts in 1838 and for many years were honored and representative residents here. The father died January 9, 1904, at the ripe old ag'e of eighty-nine years, and the mother passed away in 1901. Oliver Kittredge was the first agent of the first express company in Dayton and also a clerk in the postoffice at a very early day. In fact his name is closely interwoven with many events which shaped the policy and molded the destiny of the city in its formative period. His political allegiance was given to the whig party until its dissolution, when he joined the ranks of the republican party. A son of the family, Anson O. Kittredge, died March 23, 1903, in New York city.
Unmarked by any event of special importance, the boyhood days of Arthur M. Kittredge were passed as a public-school student until he reached the age of sixteen years. Ambitious to provide for his own support and enter business life, he became an apprentice at the galvanized iron and cornice-working trade., and his ability in that line won advancement from time to time as his excellent workmanship and substantial qualities were recognized. Eventually he became foreman of the shop and afterward superintendent of the business, so continuing until 1877, but the latter position kept him away from the city for six years and at the end of that time he returned and became bookkeeper in a wholesale house. He afterward went upon the road as traveling salesman for the H. W. Merriam Shoe Company, of Newton, New Jersey, which he represented for four years, and then entered into active relations with the Barney & Smith Car Company in January, 1884. For a quarter of a century he has been active in the management and control of this extensive business. He had been connected with the company but a brief period when he was made general superintendent of the entire plant, his early training in mechanical lines proving of material benefit to him in this connection. The company today has the largest car works in the
A. M. K1TTREDGE west and its plant is one of the most extensive manufactories in Ohio. In January, 1900, Mr. Kittredge was elected to the vice presidency and remained as its second executive officer until November, 1908, when elected president, being thus closely associated with an enterprise of almost immeasurable benefit to the city and one from which he himself has received substantial returns. Since his first connection with the company it has doubled its volume of business more than ten times, now employing three thousand five hundred men. Mr. Kittredge is also a director of the Dayton National Bank, a director and vice president of the Miami Building Association, and in all important business matters his judgment is sound and his discrimination keen.
In 1875 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Kittredge and Miss Mary J. Broadwell, a representative of one of the old and prominent families of Dayton. Two sons and two daughters have been born unto them: Harvey G., Arthur L., Mary J. and Helen L. The elder son is now secretary and treasurer of the Kess Paint Company, of which his father is president. Arthur L. Kittredge, who died October 14, 1908, wedded Georgiana Lindley, of Westfield, Indiana, and they had two children, Thomas Arthur and Mary Harriet.
Mr. Kittredge is especially interested in educational and religious questions, upon which hinge the intellectual and moral progress of the city. He holds membership in the First Presbyterian church and is interested in all the movements for the uplifting of mankind. His business associates have ever found him reliable and he is widely known as a man of tireless energy, strong purpose and a genius for devising the right thing at the right time. Those whom he meets socially find him genial and kindly in spirit and at all times he is a courteous, genial gentleman — worthy of success and the high regard in which he is uniformly held in the city of his nativity.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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