Klingler, Harry Samuel

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HARRY SAMUEL KLINGLER, eldest son of Hermann Julius KLINGLER, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1856. His education was obtained in the public schools of Butler and at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. Direct from college in 1875, he entered his father's mill with a view of mastering the details of the business, and in 1878 he took charge as general manager, the duties of which position are still discharged by him, as a member of the firm of H.J. Klingler & Company. In the mill from boyhood, and since then without interruption for eighteen years manager of the two mills and elevator of his firm, he is recognized as a successful, practical and progressive miller. Mr. KLINGLER is well known among the millers of the United States as an author of many articles on milling, and in his connection with, and lectures before, the Pennsylvania Millers' State Association. In July, 1883, he was awarded the prize by the American [p. 742] Miller for the best essay on "The Handling of Middlings and the use of Purifiers," and in 1884-85 he was a monthly contributor to that paper; at the same time and for four years, he informally supported by his pen the Milling Engineer, writing occasionally for other trade papers. As "Random Reflector" he won notoriety from a column he edited, headed "Random Reflections." When the Pennsylvania Millers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company was organized in December, 1886, he was one of the prime movers and has ever since been a director. He was in the past interested in a number of Butler enterprises, but never to such an extent as to neglect his life's work, milling. A life-long Lutheran, he has served his church energetically as superintendent of the Sunday school for nearly a decade. At the fifty-first convention of the Pittsburg Synod of the General Council, held at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, September 13-20, 1893, he was elected trustee of Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania. Mr. KLINGLER married, February 5, 1878, Louisa Catherine, daughter of Jacob KECK, of Butler, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of five children: Charlotta Fredericka; William Julius; Alberta Barbara; Clara Louisa, and Harry Samuel.