Bauer Manufacturing Company

Current Contact Information
Address	1505 E Bowman St 2540 Progress Dr 152 1/2 E Liberty St
City, State, Zip	Wooster, Ohio Marshallville, Ohio
Phone	M-L434
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Last updated	2016:05-31 CLOSED > WOOSTER LOCATION

The Bauer Manufacturing Company

Native name	Bauer Ladder
Type	Ladders manufacturing, Ladders merchant wholesalers, Ladders
Industry	Manufacturing, Transportation & Warehousing, Retail
Fate	Active
Founded	Marshallville, Ohio (1916 (1916))
Founder(s)	Thomas E. Steiner
Headquarters	1505 E. Bowman St., 2540 Progress Dr., Wooster, Ohio, Marshallville, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	2
Key people	Officers of the company were: President Thomas E. Steiner; Vice President and General Manager Harald B. Arnold; Secretary and Treasurer J. K. Halderman; plus Board of Directors W. B. Davies and Jacob Bollinger. J. E. Weiser Secretary/Treasurer
Products	ladders
Website	www.bauerladder.com

The Bauer Manufacturing Company was established in 1916 when Thomas E. Steiner found out about a new type of patented ladder being made in Cleveland, Ohio that had become extremely popular with painters and contractors installing house siding. He gathered a group of people to help invest in and form a new company to manufacture this ladder and named the company after the inventor of this type of ladder and The Bauer Manufacturing Company was born.

The first business and manufacturing facility was located in Marshallville, Ohio. The whole company was moved to Wooster, Ohio in 1920 after the Wooster Board of Trade contacted Steiner about the availability of the old Fortune Tool Company building on E. Bowman St. next to the Gerstenslager Company, The. At the new facility in Wooster J. E. Weiser became the manager. J. K. Halderman and Harold G. Arnold joined the company in the mid-1930s. As both the Gerstenslager and Bauer ladder companies grew it soon became necessary for each to obtain additional manufacturing space. The Gerstenslager Company purchased the Bauer Manufacturing Company plant on E. Bowman St. and the ladder company moved to a new building on Palmer St. Eventually the Bauer Manufacturing Company would move back to a facility along E. Bowman St. next to Silver Bros. builders supply company.

Slogans

• Our Quality is Always Higher than Our Price

Timeline

• 1916 - Established in Marshallville, Ohio
• - Office located on 152 1/2 E. Liberty St.
• 1920 - Moved the company to Wooster, Ohio into the former Fortune Tool Company building on E. Bowman St.

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

* September 08, 1953: "Bauer Ladder Founded by T.E. Steiner in 1916", The Daily Record, p. 43.

What Links Here

• Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Board of Trade ‎ (← links)
• The Bauer Manufacturing Company (redirect page) ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Directory 1925 ‎ (← links)
• Wooster Directory 1948 ‎ (← links)
• Off the Record May 3, 1950 ‎ (← links)
• File:GerstenslagerCo-BauerCo-SilverCo-SanbornMaps1930.PNG ‎ (← links)
• File:GerstenslagerCo2-BauerManufacturingCo-SanbornMaps1930-1945.PNG ‎ (← links)