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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;techwriter, post: 2911681, member: 75477&quot;]Another American manufacturing example:</p><p>=====</p><p>[ATTACH=full]703175[/ATTACH] </p><p>==========</p><p>An excerpt from Mr. Vornbrock&#039;s obituary:</p><p><br /></p><p>Otto H. Vornbrock president of the Holtgrewe Vornbrook Furniture Company of St. Louis, Mo. passed away August 11 after an illness of several weeks duration, age 55.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Vornbrock was one of the first to engage in the manufacture of furniture in St Louis. He learned the trade under his father in the old Vornbrock Furniture Company and upon the death of his parent he took charge of the business.&nbsp; In 1898 he was instrumental in organizing the Holtgrewe Vornbrock Furniture Company and in 1902 he bought out the Holtgrewe interest.&nbsp; He has been president of the company for twenty years.&nbsp; His loss is deeply felt by the business fraternity of St Louis as he has always been one of the progressive spirits in his home town.&nbsp; He is survived by the widow a son Ernest a daughter Ella his mother two sisters and a brother[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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