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_ THE ORIGINAL _ Ro me ik F PRESS CLIPPINGS " . 330 TOMPKINS AVE. STATEN ISLAND 4, N. Y. TaL Gibraltar 7-6800 CIr. (0 154,532) (S 182,238) . This Clipping From DAYTON. OHIO NEWS NOV 2' 1958 {DAYTON, INDUSTRIES Manufacture of Paint, Varnish Thrive in City By WILLIAM L, SANDKHS manufacturer. Irvin, Jewell & century, joined with Jewell and Daily Nows Staff Writer Vinson Co., also is related to a Vinson to form Irvin, Jewell & Dayton's Industrial, diversified- paint and glass retail outlet. ! Vinson Co. lion includes the manufacture of According to Guy C. Goss, of *** paints and varnishes. l.> Sandhurst dr,, retired employe BOSS SA1P that at one time, ' Outstanding of this company, the Irvin Paint Irvin, Jewell & Vinson was larger in the indus ami Glass Co. was established U\an the Lowe Brolhers Co. Me try is the in 1882 at. 124 E. Third st. . added, however, that flic com Lowe Brothers Late in the l$70's, Nicely pany, which early won an. out Co., founded Jewell and Louis Vinson, both standing position in southwestern i n 1872 b y of whom had been associated Ohio, did not aspire fo "bigness." M onry and Houston Lowe, m e ru with Lowe Brothers, opened a Irvin as president. Charles little paint factory at Fifth and Wuichet as vice president, Vin Jackson sis. son as secretary-treasurer and bers of a prominent Dayton fam After 1393, Goss said, Irvin Jewell as factory manager, ily. On Sept. 1 of that year,, Paint and Glass Co. merged with formed the team that built a they bought- the local firm of1 Jewell and Vinson to form Irvin, factory at 938. E. Second st., Stoddard and Co., paint and Jewell & Vinson Co. site of the present plant. glass retailers. . | The Lowe brochure slates Hor The company's downtown store At'that time, a Lowe Brothers j ace Irvin as one of Uic Lowe was burned out during- the 1913 brochure observes, prepared or incorporators in 3893, It adds flood. Tile following ykar, the "ready-mixed" paints had not that Irvin left the company and, store moved into leased quarters been introduced on a large scale. shortly after the turn of the at 17 E. Third st. The building, Tiie typical housepainter mixed!' alt colors from a lead base nnd supplied homeowners small lots. The coach painter, on the other , hand, ground his own colors in ' an iron mill. ** * IS1' 1883, the brothers began the manufacture of "High Stand*: ard" liquid paint in a convened See4me44 A/eeui warehouse bdhind their E. third st. store. [ , Late in thaf-decade, they con-; purchased by the . firm in 1923, the copyright assures Irvin, structed a.'building on IC. Third: was sold to the Citizens Federal Jewell & Vinson the -right to ' st., adjacent to .the present office j Savings- and Loan association In market its products under the building. -The-.structure, now aj 1952. old name. warehouse, was used originally for offices and paint .manufac ture. Incorporated in 1X93 as the Lowe Brothers Co., the firm af filiated with the Sh'erwin-WHliams , Co. of Cleveland jn iy^si. The company has had five presidents: Henry C. Lowe, j Houston Lowe, Joint C. Lowe (Houston's son!, Donald A. Kohr j and Edwin A. Daniels. The last-,, I named succeeded Kohr in 1951.' M untimc, Hie company Wagstaff has modernized the slun `^cd. In 1954, the Hooven & paint labels, refurbished the store Allison Co., cordage and twine at 115 E. Third st., Instituted a producer in Xenia, bought the program to Increase dealerships Daj ton company. Harry Wag- (there are now 50) and improved staff, a former Lowe Brothers manufacturing operations. sales executive, was named sales manager as a first step in re Producer of a complete line of habilitation. paints, including latex, the com ** * pany manufactured about 50,000 THE FIRM'S brand name, "Anchor," which had been gallons last year. Present em adopted in 1891. was kept "alive" ployment in store and factory j Associated with Lowe Brothers until 1940. A recent renewal of stands at 25. ! from 1901 until his retirement as; i chairman In 1956. with a 53-year, : record., Kohr was president for ; 27 years, a period of notable ex* j pansion. He died ' early last j summer. | * * * ! . FOLLOWING World War II, j demands for Lowe Brothers prod ucts zoomed. The firm increased j production, Improved the quality of its output,, revamped its man ufacturing `methods, introduced 1 new products and stepped up its . services to customers. Its-offices and plants occupy - alt'of the'-southeast cprncr y>( Tljird'. St; and Wayne av., extend ing soutil on Wayne to Hie hailroad and east on Third st. past < fcfadison" 'iv;v The lacquer afid N15827 varnish factories are on Crane street, ,, . 'In these plants, Lowe Brothers employs approximately 400 per sons who make paint products for two types of markets--trade ant}. industrial. The former, used 7-SWP-0053265 brf.Vhomcs. and other buildings, [accounts' for about 85 per coqt'of tlie^company's' total production. I-Va C'OTIIEB DAYTON paint