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Builder and contractor
On the record
Charles R. Wermuth, a son of Gottlieb and Johanna Wermuth, learned the trade of carpenter and builder at Dresden, spending six years there, and came to Fort Wayne in 1881. He worked at his trade about six years before establishing an independent contracting business, which he carried on for some thirty years. Griswold credits his firm with bringing to completion St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Presbyterian church on Harrison Street, the Sunset Building, the St. John’s School, the Fort Wayne Knitting Mills and the Deister Machine Shops; he also built a large addition to the Wayne Oil Tank plant and most of the Western Gas Company’s plant. He married Marie Pretchendorf at Dresden in 1876, before the couple came to America.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Wermuth sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.