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Thomas Selz
b.1863
d.1912
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of the presidents of the United States and biographies of the governors of Ohio. (A.W. Bowen, 1897).
THOMAS A. SELZ, [pages 740-743] president and manager of the Pearl Laundry company, and one of the well known young businessmen of Dayton, was born at Camp Thomas, Franklin county, Ohio (now a part of the capital of the state), November 3, 1863. He is a son of Charles Selz, who is a native of Germany, and who came to the United States about 1850, landing at New York and going direct to Bucyrus, Ohio. Enlisting in the Fifty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, he served during the war as band sergeant. Mr. Selz was a bugler in Col. Joseph Dister's command, and when the order was issued disbanding the bands of the volunteer regiments, he joined the regular army, and became a member of the Eighteenth regiment's band. His service was in the west for three years, at Fort Laramie and other frontier posts. At the close of the war he returned to Ohio, locating at Sandusky, and was there for sometime engaged in the manufacture of carriages. In 1876 he removed to Dayton, Ohio, and has ever since been a resident of this city. At present Mr. Selz is a member of the Third regiment band.
The education Thomas A. Selz received was that furnished by the public schools, but leaving school when thirteen years of age he became a cash boy in a store in Dayton. Afterward he was engaged for nearly three years in a photograph gallery, and at the end of this time he went to work in a laundry, in which he was an employee for nearly three years. In 1881 he engaged in the laundry business for himself, beginning on a very small scale with a hand laundry, his plant consisting of one wash tub and a second hand cook stove. His partner in this enterprise was Charles A. Koch. Their business gradually increased in proportion from year to year until 1887, when they established a steam laundry, fitting up their plant at No. 111 East Second street. They continued to increase their capacity until 1893, when they organized a stock company with a capital of $25,000, with Mr. Selz as president and manager, and Mr. Koch as vice-president and assistant manager. In June, 1895, their present handsome building was completed at Nos. 106, 108 and no East Second street, it being erected especially for their laundry business. It is four stories in height, 60x60 feet in size, and is fitted up with the latest and most improved machinery for doing a general and special laundry business. To give some idea of the capacity of this establishment and of the amount of work done, it may be stated that the Pearl laundry uses 25,000 gallons of water daily, which is pumped from the company's own wells. Their steam mangle, which is one of the largest in the world, has a daily capacity of 32,000 pieces, and this company has the exclusive right to operate it in Dayton. Since 1886 Mr. Selz has been a member of the National Laundry association, and is 189$, at the convention held at Atlanta, Ga., he was elected president of the association, which position he still holds.
Politically Mr. Selz is and always has been a democrat, and at the present time is treasurer of the democratic city committee. He is a member of the B. P. 0. E., of the Independent Order of Foresters, of the Sons of Veterans, of the Dayton Bicycle club and has been treasurer of the Dayton Gymnastic club for years. Mr. Selz was married, in 1891, to Miss Clara L. Clemens, daughter of Jacob Clemens, a retired contractor and builder of Dayton. He is a man of excellent business capacity, and through his own unaided efforts and careful management has built up a fine business, and ranks as one of the able and useful young business men of the city.
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Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 11, 1912
v. 47, iss. 139 : pg. 4, col. 1
died due to heart attack, death notice
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 11, 1912
v. 47, iss. 139 : pg. 4, col. 8
died 11 June 1912 at age 48 y, 7 m, Woodland Cemetery, obituary
Thomas A. Selz
Dayton Daily Journal
June 12, 1912
v. 104th Year, iss. 323 : pg. 4, col. 1
died June 11, president of Troy-Pearl Laundry Company, former county treasurer, see articles regarding his condition June 9, pg 4, sec2 and June 11, pg 2 col 6
Thomas H. Selz
Dayton Daily Journal
June 12, 1912
v. 104th Year, iss. 323 : pg. 7, col. 4
died June 11, age 47, born in Camp Thomas near Columbus in 1865, came to Dayton with parents in 1876 from Sandusky, leaves wife nee Belle Hopkins of Wilmington, Ohio, daughter 21-month old, mother, 5
Thomas A. Selz
Dayton Daily Journal
June 12, 1912
v. 104th Year, iss. 323 : pg. 10, col. 6
age 47, Woodland Cemetery
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 12, 1912
v. 47, iss. 140 : pg. 4, col. 1
born 03 November 1868, immortellen
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 12, 1912
v. 47, iss. 140 : pg. 4, col. 8
died 11 June 1912 at age 48 y, 7 m, Woodland Cemetery, obituaryrn
Thomas A. Selz
Dayton Daily Journal
June 13, 1912
v. 104th Year, iss. 324 : pg. 6, col. 2
president of Troy-Pearl Laundry, funeral June 14, burial Woodland Cemetery
Thomas A. Selz
Dayton Daily Journal
June 13, 1912
v. 104th Year, iss. 324 : pg. 13, col. 2
age 47, Woodland Cemetery
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 13, 1912
v. 47, iss. 141 : pg. 4, col. 8
died 11 June 1912 at age 48y and 7 m, Woodland Cemetery, obituary
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 15, 1912
v. 47, iss. 143 : pg. 4, col. 6
Woodland Cemetery, funeral notice
Thomas A. Selz
Daytoner Zeitung
June 19, 1912
v. 47, iss. 146 : pg. 4, col. 4
probate court
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