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1922 Portrait-Emil Vilter |
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History of Milwaukee, city and county, V3 1922 pg 131 |
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EMIL VILTER.
Emil Vilter, entering upon an apprenticeship with the Vilter Manufacturing Company, has worked his way upward through successive positions to the presidency of this concern, which is one of the important productive interests of the city. He was born in Milwaukee, March 13, 1871, and is a son of Ernst and Elise (Meiners) Vilter, both of whom were natives of Germany. The father came to America in 1866, while the mother crossed the Atlantic in 1869 and they were married in Milwaukee. The father was interested in the distillery of Meniere & Vilter and later with B. Leidersdorf and Company. He became one of the founders of the Vilter Manufacturing Company, which in the early days was conducted as a partnership enterprise under the firm style of Weisel & Vilter. As the business grew and developed and changes in the ownership occurred, the name of the Vilter Manufacturing Company was adopted in 1892. This was five years after the death of the father in 1887.
Emil Vilter was educated in Milwaukee, where he attended the German and English Academy. He afterward became a student in the State University of Wisconsin at Madison and having thus qualified by liberal educational training for life's practical and responsible duties he started out in the business world as an apprentice with the Vilter Manufacturing Company, working as a machinist and advancing through the various branches of the business. He worked at his trade for eight years and afterward passed on through the engineering and sales departments, thoroughly acquainting himself with every phase of the business and at length becoming an active factor in the organization and direction of the company. After the death of Theodore O. Vilter, his brother, he was elected to the presidency of the company in 1920 and has since remained in this position of administrative direction and executive control.
On the 2nd of October, 1895, Mr. Vilter was married to Miss Clara M. Plathner of Milwaukee, and they have one son, Ernest Frederick, who is now a student in the Milwaukee University high school. Mr. Vilter took a helpful part in promoting war activities. He was for many years a director of the Engineers Society of Milwaukee, of which he also was president, and he belongs to the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, the Association of Stationary Engineers and the Engineers Club of New York. He is connected with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Wisconsin Lodge, No. 13, A. F. & A. M., and exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft. He is also well known in club circles, belonging to the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Wisconsin Club, the Safe Drivers' Club of Milwaukee, the Pine Lake Yacht Club, the Milwaukee Automobile Club and the Rotary Club. He is also a member of the Milwaukee Art Institute and is interested in all those forces, which make for cultural progress and civic advancement. His life has been passed in this city and there are many who attest his worth as a businessman, his progressiveness and his loyalty as a citizen. |
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1922 Portrait-Emil Vilter
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