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Incorporated 7 December 1918 – last documented 1923 (the Businesses section carries the founding)
Founded: The American Art Textile Company was incorporated on 7 December 1918 with $500,000 capital, its works at 920 Osage Street. The officers recorded in the 1923 Polk directory are H. I. Pollak, president; Fred Zollars, vice-president; G. F. Schauer, secretary; and Harry Hilgemann, treasurer.
Course and fate: The 1923 directory listing is the last record of the company found in the sources searched. Searches of later directories, textile-trade listings and local history pages return no later trace of the firm — no closure notice, sale, receivership or successor at the Osage Street works. Its course after 1923 is therefore left exactly where the record leaves it: incorporated with half a million dollars of capital in December 1918, operating at 920 Osage in 1923, and undocumented thereafter in the sources available.
Sources:
- R. L. Polk, Fort Wayne city directory, 1923, incorporated institutions list — the incorporation date, capital, address and officers.