Loren Murphy Berry
Birth: 24 Jul 1888 Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana, USA
Death: 10 Feb 1980 (aged 91) Oakwood, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Burial: Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA
Plot: section 121 lot 8
Memorial #: 3721
Bio: Business Inovator. Born in Wabash, Indiana, he became known as "Mr. Yellow Pages" and was the foremost telephone directory publishers in the United States, handling one out of every four telephone directories in the United States. In 1910, he began The Ohio Guide Printing Company which soon concentrated his efforts on a telephone directory operation. By the 1970s, his company was asked by the manager of a telephone company to sell advertising space in the company's directory as well as listing. In 1982, he was inducted into the Telephone Hall of Fame honor roll of the Independent Telecommunications Pioneer Association. He expanded his operations to Europe, where the product is called the Golden Pages and by the 1990s, he was responsible for more than 800 directory titles nationwide, serving more than 100 U.S. telephone companies and one million advertisers. He sold his company to Bell South for an estimated price of more than $1 billion. He died of natural causes at age 91 in Oakwood, Ohio.
Family Members
Parents
Charles D Berry 1858-1892
Elizabeth M Berry 1860-1964
Spouses
Helen Beatrice Anderson Berry 1899-1974
Lucille June Kneipple Berry 1888-1935
Children
Charles Robert Berry 1912-1933
Loren M. Berry 1914-1986
Martha B Berry Fraim 1920-2013
Elizabeth Ann Berry Gray 1924-2007
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Added: 21 Oct 1998
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3721/loren-murphy-berry
Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 29 August 2019), memorial page for Loren Murphy Berry (24 Jul 1888–10 Feb 1980), Find A Grave Memorial no. 3721, citing Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
