Category: Business and Industry

The STATE SAVINGS AND LOAN CO., the 9th largest savings and loan institution in the Cleveland area at one time, was established in 1909 as the Tatra Savings & Loan Co. John A. Sotak, Joseph Dovalosky, and Michael Phillips pooled $20,000 and opened the first office at Scovill Ave. and E. 23rd St., which served a largely SLOVAK clientele.

STEARNS, F. B. CO. See F. B. STEARNS CO.

STEELYARD COMMONS  is a 130 acre shopping center which sits on the former site of an LTV STEEL finishing mill in the industrial Flats in the

The STERLING-LINDNER CO. was a combination of 3 smaller stores—the Sterling & Welch Co., the W. B. Davis Co., and the Lindner Co.—each of which was a leader retailer in its own specialty. Sterling & Welch began in 1845 when Thos. S. and Wm. Beckwith opened a dry goods store on Superior St. In 1857 the store replaced its dry goods line with floor coverings and curtains. Both Frederick A. Sterling and Geo. P.

STOCK EQUIPMENT, a world leader in the design and building of bulk material flow-control equipment for the power and energy industry, was founded by Arthur J. Stock on 1 Oct. 1929. Stock, a mechanical engineer, secured patents for a distributor for use in stoker-fired boilers and he formed Stock Equipment to provide products for stoker-fired coal applications.

STOCKYARDS. See CLEVELAND UNION STOCKYARDS CO.

STONE, MORRIS SAMUEL (15 March 1911-23 June 1989) was an executive at the AMERICAN GREETINGS CORP. who, along with his father (company founder, 1906) and two brothers, helped build American Greetings into the world's largest manufacturer of greeting cards and related products.

STOUFFER FOODS is a Cleveland-based corporation whose operations include a nationwide chain of restaurants, motor inns, frozen prepared foods, and food-service management. Stouffer's began in 1922 as a stand-up milk counter in the ARCADE, owned and operated by ABRAHAM E. AND LENA M. (BIGELOW) STOUFFER.

STOUFFER RENAISSANCE CLEVELAND HOTEL. See RENAISSANCE CLEVELAND HOTEL.

STOUFFER'S INN ON THE SQUARE. See RENAISSANCE CLEVELAND HOTEL.

STREET LIGHTING. In 1846 the Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Co. was organized, spelling the end for oil-fired lamps, which were noted by publications of the time to be in for their "final trimming." However, little real progress was made with gas development until the end of the decade, when the gas manufacturing company acquired new management.

SUNAR-HAUSERMAN, INC., formerly Hauserman, Inc., a leading producer of movable interior walls, was founded by Earl F. Hauserman, who bought out part of the building supplies dealer for whom he worked and organized the E. F. Hauserman Co. on 24 Mar. 1913. The company manufactured and installed finished, ready-to-use steel sashes—an innovation which produced an initial boom in sales.

SUPREME LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA. See DUNBAR LIFE.

SWITZER, ROBERT C. (19 May 1914-20 Aug. 1997), inventor, entrepreneur, and environmentalist, co-founded the Day-Glo Color Corp., a trade name that became synonymous with the fluorescent dyes and paints that he and his brother, Joseph, first invented in the 1930s.

The T.W. GROGAN CO. was formed in June 1926 by Thomas William Grogan who visualized an opportunity for a progressive building management organization in Greater Cleveland. The small real-estate operation started by Grogan in a one-room office eventually managed more than 300 properties in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and New Jersey. T.W.

TALL, BOOKER T. (12 Dec. 1928-13 Feb. 1994) had a varied career as a teacher, businessman, and politician, but he is best remembered for a lifetime of work to enhance and honor the positive achievements of AFRICAN AMERICANS. Born to sharecroppers Booker T. (Sr.) and Julia MacFulton Tall in Hooker Bend, TN, Tall early learned the virtue of industry and thrift.

TANK PLANT. See I-X CENTER.

TAP PACKAGING SOLUTIONS is the nation’s largest provider of premium photo packaging products. Originally known as the Chilcote Company, Tap Packaging Solutions has been manufacturing photo mounts for over 100 years in Cleveland. Founded by August A. Chilcote in 1906, Tap Packaging has grown enormously and served as a notable employment opportunity for Clevelanders. 

TAYLOR CHAIR CO., headquartered in BEDFORD, is the oldest business still in existence in Northeast Ohio and is believed to be the oldest company in the United States still owned by the same family. Taylor Chair originated in 1816 when Benjamin Franklin Fitch began making split-bottom, slat-backed chairs by hand at his cabin located at what is now the corner of Libby and Warrensville Ctr.