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Secretary and treasurer of S. F. Bowser & Company
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Charles A. Dunkelberg, a son of Charles A. and Eliza (Lassen) Dunkelberg, was educated at Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie and became an expert stenographer — Griswold credits him with bringing the first typewriter into northeastern Pennsylvania. He worked for the banking and brokerage firm of E. C. Benedict and Company in New York City and then for Joseph T. Ryerson and Son, iron merchants, at Chicago, before his selection as steward of the State Hospital for the Insane at Logansport, Indiana, a position he filled for five years; he then kept a wholesale and retail queensware store at Logansport for three years. In July 1899 he came to Fort Wayne as head bookkeeper for S. F. Bowser and Company, and was promoted in turn to superintendent of salesmen and to secretary and treasurer of the company. On 1 September 1916 he resigned to give his whole time to his dairy farm in Pleasant Township. Walter G. Zahrt, profiled in this supplement, had succeeded Dunkelberg as clerk of the Logansport hospital in 1892. Dunkelberg was elected president of the Wayne Club of Fort Wayne; the sketch breaks off in the copy read before completing that sentence.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Dunkelberg sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.