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Cuyahoga Soap
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Postcard found at the Cleveland Memory Project of CSU
Owner:
Location:
- 808 Denison Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
HISTORY
- Ludwig (Louis) Stadler, father of August, opened his soap factory in the mid-1800's at a time when a medium-sized gully crossed from his property north of Archwood Avenue over to the northside of Willowdale Avenue. His factory was located in that gully just west of West 25th St..
- After Louis died, August started up his own operation on the lower end of Denison Avenue. Presumably, the development of the residential area between Archwood and Mapledale Avenue proved to be incompatible with a firm that utilized animal fats and tallow which probably produced noxious odors. The gully was totally filled in and now is the site of housing and retail businesses.
- CUYAHOGA SOAP, a small family-owned rendering firm, became a major domestic producer of tallow. The company was a major consumer of the waste from Cleveland's stockyard operations. Cuyahoga Soap & Rendering, as the company was originally called, was begun by August W. Stadler in 1876 with $98 capital. (A friend offered him $100, but he turned down the extra $2 as unnecessary.) A fire and flood ruined Stadler's early venture, but undaunted, he maintained an office in his home while he acquired the materials to start over.[1]
REFERENCES
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CS7
