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Documented through its president, Frank H. Cutshall (1876–1943)
Founded: No founding record has been found. The firm of this exact name is documented through the career of the man who headed it: Frank H. Cutshall of Fort Wayne, who, "following his long and distinguished banking career," was president of the Wayne Hardware Co. The dating anchor is his life and career — he was formerly president of the Old National Bank and of its successor the Old First National Bank and Trust Company, which closed in March 1933, and he died in 1943 — placing his hardware presidency in his post-banking years.
What it did: A hardware company. Cutshall's other late-career posts were of the same standing: president of the First Joint Stock Land Bank and chairman of the board of the American Steel Dredge Company and the American Steel Supply Company.
Course and fate: Nothing further is documented in the sources searched. The company is not the Fort Wayne Hardware & Sporting Goods Company (612 Calhoun Street, by 1923) carried in the Businesses section; the two firms are distinct, and no source found connects them.
Sources:
- Pioneers Resting in Historic Lindenwood (1989), Frank H. Cutshall sketch — the Wayne Hardware presidency and his other companies.