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Treasurer and assistant general manager of S. F. Bowser & Company
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Walter G. Zahrt, a son of Henry and Katherine (Bering) Zahrt, both natives of Germany, went to Chicago in 1888 and entered the employ of the Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company as a stenographer and secretary to its manager. In 1892 he became clerk of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Logansport, succeeding Charles A. Dunkelberg, and advanced by successive steps to steward of the institution — in effect its business manager, and secretary to its board of trustees. After twelve years at Logansport he came to Fort Wayne in 1904 as sales manager of S. F. Bowser & Company, and advanced through office manager and general sales manager to assistant general manager and treasurer. For three years after his removal he was retained as a trustee of the Logansport hospital on the appointment of Governor Frank Hanly. He married Rebecca Alice Shedron in 1896.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, vol. II (1917), Zahrt sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.