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Ice house in Akron. Ohio| Klages Coal and Ice Company | |
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| Alternative names | Royal Crown Bottling company |
| General information | |
| Type | Ice house |
| Town or city | Akron. Ohio |
| Completed | 1888 |
| Owner | Original owner: Henry Klages |
Akron Ice House was established in 1879 (Incorporated 1888) The Klages Coal & Ice Company Akron, Ohio. was co-founded by German immigrants Henry Klages and August Blessman. The business was passed on to their sons, Louis Klages and Water Blessman. The building was also a Royal Crown Bottling Co. plant.
History
In the late 1880s Henry Klages won the right to all of the ice on Akron, Ohio's Blue Pond.
Klages Coal & Ice Company was built in 1888 on N. Summit street, Akron, Ohio. Klages Coal & Ice was established in 1888 by two German immigrants Henry Klages and August Blessman. Henry Klages died in 1899 and the business was passed to his son Louis Klages and to August Blesman's son, Water Blessman. From 1947 through the 1980s, the building was a Royal Crown Bottling Co. plant.
Acquisitions
In January of 1929 Klages Coal & Ice Company acquired two addition al companies: Falls Ice Company and Ewart Coal and Ice Company. By 1929 Klages Coal & Ice Company had 100 ice stations and 50 trucks and horse drawn vehicles.
Fire
On January 29, 1892 three of the Klages Coal & Ice - ice houses by Summit Lake burned down. A neighbor (Joe Sutters) had started fires nearby which caused the buildings to burn. Klages Coal & Ice had no insurance and damages were estimated at $1500.
Royal Crown Bottling Company
In 1947 the building was used as a Royal Crown Bottling Company plant.
Hodgson v. Klages Coal & Ice Co. (6th Cir. 1970)
Hodgson brought a suit against the bottling company which claimed routemen were also outside salesmen and therefor entitled to overtime in addition to the flat fee pay for their route. The court determined: "workers were entitled to overtime pay even though the employer “paid its routemen a flat fee plus commissions based on volume."
References
- "Henry Klages Dead". East Liverpool Evening News Review. 21 July 1899. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- Lane, Samuel A. (1892). Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County. Akron Ohio: Beacon. p. 508. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Klages Coal & Ice". Summit Memory. Summit Memory. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- Price, Mark J. (23 January 2012). "Local history: Ice harvest a cold slice of Ohio's past". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "Klages Co. Growth Typical of Akron Business Romances". The Akron Beacon Journal. 19 August 1929. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- "Ice House Burned". Defiance Daily Crescent. 5 February 1892. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- "Hodgson v. Klages Coal & Ice Co.," (PDF). KeHE_Cert_Petition. Supreme Court. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- "Supreme Court of the United States" (PDF). Supreme Court. Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved 17 July 2020.