Slutz Elevator

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About

Name

• Slutz Elevator

Manufacturing

• Food Manufacturing

Facts

Founded

• Date unknown
  ^{Fredericksburg,Ohio}

• Date unknown

Related

Key Persons

Key Persons

• John J. Miller, s sons
• many Amish young men were employed., s sons
• "Ott" Austin Blair Slutz, 1924-1956, OWNERS
• Albert Tressel Slutz and Howard Sim, circa 1922-1924, OWNERS
• Blair Slutz, Gene Slutz, and Jeff Slutz, s sons
• Eleanor Slutz, Bookkeeper & General Office for 22 years, s sons
• Art Slutz and brother Lynn Slutz, 1956-1967, OWNERS
• Pancost and Marvin Fluhart, 1989 OTHER EMPLOYEES

Location

• Fredericksburg, 44627, Ohio, United States

S & S Feed and Lumber Co., Circa 1922-1924

• Albert Tressel Slutz and Howard Sims
• Between 1915-1919, purchased Wooster Grain & Seed Company, The
• Pancost and Marvis Fluhart worked for this company
• Sold company in 1924 to "Ott" Austin Blair Slutz

Slutz and Son Elevator, 1924-1956

• In 1924, "Ott" Austin Blair Slutz purchased the S & S Feed and Lumber Co.
• Operated the elevator with his son Lynn until, his dad, Austin Blair Slutz died in 1956
• Added an addition onto the old school
• A first for area farmers to have custom grinding locally
• Installed a Fairbanks-Morris diesel engine powering a new grinder, a mixer, and a corn sheller
• The elevator bought and sold wheat, cement, lime, etc.

Slutz Elevator, 1956-1989

• In 1956, after his father died, Art Slutz (Art previously worked as a long distance steel trucker) bought his father's share of the mill and partnered with his brother Lynn until 1967 when Lynn died
• New feed mill erected (Quonset hut style)
• All new grinding equipment, a dump pit, three new feed mixers, and a corn cob sheller
• Buying and shipping grain out by rail to Kent, Grafton, Loudonville and other flour mills
• Hauled gravel and limestone, sold commercial feed and fertilizers, cement, fencing products, etc.
• Only hardware store in town
• Lynn Slutz died in 1967, which Art Slutz purchased Lynn's share of the feed mill and assumed full ownership
• 1969 flood changed the business when the flood closed the railroad and could no longer ship out grain by rail
• In 1985, Art Slutz purchased the old railroad property from Clay St. to Mill St. which was adjacent to the feed mill
• Art Slutz operated the mill for 22 more years and retired after serving 33 years at the elevator
• Art's wife Eleanor Slutz served as bookkeeper and general office for 22 years.
• John J. Miller was a long time employee of the company, as were many Amish men