Ober Harness Shop

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About

Name

• Ober Harness Shop

Wholesale

• Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods

Trading names

• Abraham L. Ober Harness Shop

Services

• Livery

Facts

Founded

• Date unknown
  ^Creston,Ohio

Fire, Dissolved

• September 11,1913

Related

Key Persons

Founders

• Albert L. Ober

Location

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• E. Main St., Creston, 44217, Ohio

Dealer in harness and saddlery goods, nearly all his own make. =="Klondike Bill"==

• "And as you are going to keep horses," continnel (sic) the old man, "of course you'll need harness. The boss horse milliner in this section, to my notion, and in fact in the county, is A. L. Ober dealer in harness and saddlery goods, nearly all his own make. He learned the trade thoroughly and is a manufacturer of light and heavy harness of all kinds. He uses only first class material and gives his personal supervision to the most minute detail in the manufacture, and employs none but expert harness makers. There is nothing in harness that cannot be had of him-- heavy and light, single and double, plain, fancy and farm harness nearly all his own make, and he has all of them in stock, besides a fine lot of plush and fur robes, fur coats, horse blankets, collars, sweat pads, besides all kinds of turf goods, also axle grease, oils, and, in fact, one of the finest lines you ever saw." After their visit to A. L. Ober's harness store, John said if a man cannot get satisfaction it is his own fault, and he expressed himself as well please with A. L. Ober's candor and fairness. His shop is in his own building, corner Main and Mill street.

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Quick Facts

• 1913 - September 11, High tension trolley wire started a fire in the Farmer's Telephone Company office located over the Abraham L. Ober Harness Shop destroying a third of the business block. "Fire broke out in the business section of the village of Creston early last Thursday morning, which caused a $20,000 loss of property. The fire it is though originated from crossed wires in the office of the Wayne county telephone company. The following business places were totally destroyed: A. L. Ober, harness shop; Schlegel & Son, meat market; Goodman piano store; F. A. Ritzi, jewelry store; Schlegel & Sigler, barber shop, and Wayne County telephone office."