The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-11-20
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OBITUARY

w. H. LOCKE ANDERSON

| Edwin M. Knowles emma 20. at
Newell, died Saturday at $50 p. m.,
in City Hospital from accidental in
juries suffered last Thursday morning
at the factory.
Mr.. Anderson, who received frac-
tured skull, died without regaining
consciousness. His head is believed to
have struck the fywheel on an air
compressor. There were no eye wit
nesses to the accident, Mr.. Anderson
not being found until some time after
he was hurt.
He first accepted an engineering po-
sition with the Gary, Ind, Tube Co..
At the outbreak of the World War he
entered the First Officers Training
School at Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Ind, where he was commissioned as
second lieutenant.
He was sent to France with the in
telligence department and served
overseas for nearly two years. He
was discharged after the war with
the rank of captain.
He then went to Youngstown where
he became an engineer with the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. In
1922, he accepted position as cost
engineer with the Pope -Gosser China
Co. at Coshocton. In 1925 he joined
the Canonsburg, Pa, Pottery Co. as
plant superintendent.
Four years later Mr.. Anderson
went to East Palestine as assistant to
the president of the w. S. George Pot
terry Co. He came to the Edwin NJ
Knowles China Co. at Newell in No
vember, 1885, first as factory man
ager, and later as vice president and
general manager
He was first vice president of the
United States Potters' Association in
1897 and president in 1888. He was
a member of the First Methodist
Church and the Beta Theta Pi Fra
ternity at Cornell University.
Mr.. Anderson was married to Miss
Ruth Meters of Columbus in 1925.
He lived on Forsyth place.
He leaves his widow, his parents,
daughter Jane, IA, and son, w. H.
Locke Jr., 8, and one sister Mrs. Mer-
rill c. Sondles of Sistersville, w. Va.
Services were held Tuesday at 10
a. m. in the Dawson Funeral Home by
Rev. Clark w. Cooper, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, assisted by
Rev. Francis G. Stewart, pastor of the
Emmanuel Presbyterian G hur h {.
Burial was in Rverview Cemetery.
D11hn, VrbC
Blue, Arthur A. Wells, Frederick p.
Lawrence, C. V. Hughes, w. H. Emer-
son, Sam S. Groglode, w. J. Vodrey
Jr., Richard G. SAINT, w. Leland
Thompson, William J. Hooking and
Maxon H. KipS.-of East Liverpool;
Robert George of Canonsburg, Pa,
and John f. McConnaughay and Paul
! Coggins of Pittsburgh.
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AM. BURNS
Augustine NJ. Burns, dean of the
East Liverpool printers, died Satur-
day at $3.50 p. m. in his home at COL
Orchard Grove avenue, following an
1l-week illness of heart ailment. He
was g.
i Mr.. Burns, affectionately known as
"Teeney" by his many friends, had
been in poor health for about two
years but continued his work as a
linotype operator at The Review until
his last illness. Last April he was
presented with 40-year service pin
by fellow-members of the Topographic
cal Union, although he was printer
for more than 80 years.
He was born Aug. 6, 1878, in Steu-
benvlle, a son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r..
Burns. He took up work as printer
when a boy, learning his trade in the
plant of the Steubenville Herald Star
ip the days when type was set by
hand.
Mr. Burns helped to install the first
linotype machine in East Liverpool in
1897 when The Review was published
! in the basement of the present Moose
building at Fourth and Washington
streets. He was employed at the Pot
ters Herald for four years, leaving in
| 1925.
He was a vestryman in st. Steph-
ems Episcopal Church. He was men,
ber Of Riddle Lodge 3l5, Masons !;
Keramos Council 95, Royal and Select
Masons; East Liverpool Chapter 100,
Royal Arch Masons; Pilgrim Com
mandery 95, knights Templar, and Al
Koran Shrine of Cleveland; the Typo
graphical Union 31S and Musicians
Union.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Winifred
Barcus Burns; three daughters, Mrs.
Fred II. Tibbetts of Columbus, Mrs
Charles kendrick of East Palestine
and Mrs. J. Arnold Owen of Berkeley,
Calf; a twin sister, Mrs. c. G. Mil
Ter of Steubenville, and three grand
children. Mrs. Owen returned to Cali
! fornia a little over week ago after