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Tokheim 1871 – 1941 · Diserens died 1925
Tokheim was not a Fort Wayne founding, and this entry says so plainly: John J. Tokheim, born 17 May 1871 at Odda, Norway, and died 15 March 1941, founded his pump company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa — the Business record carries both an organisation in 1900 and an incorporation in 1901. The Fort Wayne chapter belongs to Ralph F. Diserens, who led the consortium that purchased the company in 1918 and moved its entire operation to Fort Wayne, re-incorporating it as the Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company with $200,000 capital. Diserens stood as chairman, president, treasurer and general manager until his death in 1925. The People sections hold a Tokheim firm card, not a profile of either man.
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- Businesses — "Tokheim" (the Cedar Rapids founding with its 1900/1901 variants, the 1918 Diserens purchase and removal to Fort Wayne, the re-incorporation and Diserens's offices and death).