Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH), Saturday, April 25, 1931; pg. 5
Thomas J. Wetzel - The body of Thomas J. Wetzel, 65, formerly of this city, who died Thursday night at his residence in New York city, will be brought here at 10 a.m. Sunday for burial in Woodland cemetery (sic). Funeral services at one of the Episcopal churches in that city were conducted Saturday afternoon.
Wetzel, who spent the greater part of his life in Dayton, removed to New York city about 25 years ago. He leaves his widow and two daughters.
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The Dayton Herald (Dayton, OH), Monday, April 27, 1931; pg. 24
New York Business Head Laid to Rest in Dayton
Rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, Formerly of This City, Attended by Associates.
Final burial rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, 64, in years past a resident of this city, were held Woodland cemetery (sic) chapel Sunday morning following arrival of the body from New York, accompanied by a special car with his relatives and about 40 of his close friends from the eastern metropolis.
Mr. Wetzel was a manufacturers' agent in the motor car industry, with headquarters in New York and Detroit, and was probably more widely known and beloved in the motor car industry than any other one man, it was stated by his associates who came to Dayton with the body.
NEW YORK SERVICE.
He was a particularly close friend of Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors corporation and Walter P. Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Motor corporation, both of whom had intended coming to Dayton with the group but found other engagements prevented.
However, both attended the funeral services, which were held in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church (sic) in New York, Saturday, and Mr. Chrysler personally made all the arrangements for bringing the body to this city and the special car for his associates.
The funeral party arrived in Dayton at 9:42 Sunday morning, including the survivors, Mrs. Wetzel and two daughters, Jane and Louise, and the group of business associates, and proceeded to Woodland cemetery (sic) immediately.
Mr. Wetzel was born in Springville, Ohio and had joined the Masonic lodge in that city in 1900. A group of Masonic officers and members from that city met the party a the cemetery and had charge of the burial rites.
In his early working years Mr. Wetzel was a brakeman on one of the railroads through. Dayton. His parents, Samuel A. and Roberta Wetzel, removed to Dayton and are buried at Woodland and the body of Mr. Wetzel was consigned to its last resting place besides his parents.
During the time the bicycle had its day Mr. Wetzel was engaged in that business and then entered the automobile game from the start. He was a close friend of the late Charles Stoddard when the latter was in charge of the Stoddard-Dayton automobile plant here.
DEATH WAS SUDDEN.
At that time Mr. Wetzel was connected with the Brown Lipe Gear company and made continual close contacts with Mr. Stoddard through sale of practically all the gears used in the Dayton-made cars to the local car manufacturing company.
From here Mr. Wetzel went to New York and Detroit, enlarging his sphere of action and forming such contacts with mother car manufacturers as to make him particularly outstanding in his line of work for a great many years past.
His death occurred last Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in New York rather suddenly following an attack of heart disease.
He was associated in business with John F. Creamer in the organization of the concern known as Wheels, Inc. Mr. Creamer, who headed the party which came to Dayton, is president of the company and Mr. Wetzel was a director. He was also manager of the Motor Wheel corporation in New York, a Lansing, Mich,, concern In which a number of Dayton people own stock.
He was one of the early members of the Society of Automotive Engineers and one of the first officers and directors of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' association, now the Motor and Equipment association.
Mr. Wetzel maintained his home at Cape Cod and was a member of a large number of eastern clubs, including the Detroit and New York Athletic clubs; the Lambs club, of New York; the Wingfoot Golf club, New York; the Seaview Golf club, Atlantic City and the Question club, with headquarters in New York.
FAMILY RETURNS.
The latter club is a national organization of prominent manufacturers and financiers and it was the members of this club that accompanied the body to Dayton. At the funeral services of Mr. Wetzel held in New York Saturday all the members of the club acted as honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Wetzel was New York distributor for two Dayton products, the steel wheels made by the Dayton Steel Foundry company and wire wheels made by the Dayton Wire Wheel company and was intimately known by members of those two arganizations (sic).
Mrs. Wetzel and daughters and the members of the special party left for the return trip to New York Sunday afternoon at 5:09 o'clock. The body remained In the vault at Woodland until Monday, the burial being taken care of Monday morning by a sister who resides on a farm near Hamilton.
Thomas J. Wetzel - The body of Thomas J. Wetzel, 65, formerly of this city, who died Thursday night at his residence in New York city, will be brought here at 10 a.m. Sunday for burial in Woodland cemetery (sic). Funeral services at one of the Episcopal churches in that city were conducted Saturday afternoon.
Wetzel, who spent the greater part of his life in Dayton, removed to New York city about 25 years ago. He leaves his widow and two daughters.
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The Dayton Herald (Dayton, OH), Monday, April 27, 1931; pg. 24
New York Business Head Laid to Rest in Dayton
Rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, Formerly of This City, Attended by Associates.
Final burial rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, 64, in years past a resident of this city, were held Woodland cemetery (sic) chapel Sunday morning following arrival of the body from New York, accompanied by a special car with his relatives and about 40 of his close friends from the eastern metropolis.
Mr. Wetzel was a manufacturers' agent in the motor car industry, with headquarters in New York and Detroit, and was probably more widely known and beloved in the motor car industry than any other one man, it was stated by his associates who came to Dayton with the body.
NEW YORK SERVICE.
He was a particularly close friend of Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors corporation and Walter P. Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Motor corporation, both of whom had intended coming to Dayton with the group but found other engagements prevented.
However, both attended the funeral services, which were held in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church (sic) in New York, Saturday, and Mr. Chrysler personally made all the arrangements for bringing the body to this city and the special car for his associates.
The funeral party arrived in Dayton at 9:42 Sunday morning, including the survivors, Mrs. Wetzel and two daughters, Jane and Louise, and the group of business associates, and proceeded to Woodland cemetery (sic) immediately.
Mr. Wetzel was born in Springville, Ohio and had joined the Masonic lodge in that city in 1900. A group of Masonic officers and members from that city met the party a the cemetery and had charge of the burial rites.
In his early working years Mr. Wetzel was a brakeman on one of the railroads through. Dayton. His parents, Samuel A. and Roberta Wetzel, removed to Dayton and are buried at Woodland and the body of Mr. Wetzel was consigned to its last resting place besides his parents.
During the time the bicycle had its day Mr. Wetzel was engaged in that business and then entered the automobile game from the start. He was a close friend of the late Charles Stoddard when the latter was in charge of the Stoddard-Dayton automobile plant here.
DEATH WAS SUDDEN.
At that time Mr. Wetzel was connected with the Brown Lipe Gear company and made continual close contacts with Mr. Stoddard through sale of practically all the gears used in the Dayton-made cars to the local car manufacturing company.
From here Mr. Wetzel went to New York and Detroit, enlarging his sphere of action and forming such contacts with mother car manufacturers as to make him particularly outstanding in his line of work for a great many years past.
His death occurred last Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in New York rather suddenly following an attack of heart disease.
He was associated in business with John F. Creamer in the organization of the concern known as Wheels, Inc. Mr. Creamer, who headed the party which came to Dayton, is president of the company and Mr. Wetzel was a director. He was also manager of the Motor Wheel corporation in New York, a Lansing, Mich,, concern In which a number of Dayton people own stock.
He was one of the early members of the Society of Automotive Engineers and one of the first officers and directors of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' association, now the Motor and Equipment association.
Mr. Wetzel maintained his home at Cape Cod and was a member of a large number of eastern clubs, including the Detroit and New York Athletic clubs; the Lambs club, of New York; the Wingfoot Golf club, New York; the Seaview Golf club, Atlantic City and the Question club, with headquarters in New York.
FAMILY RETURNS.
The latter club is a national organization of prominent manufacturers and financiers and it was the members of this club that accompanied the body to Dayton. At the funeral services of Mr. Wetzel held in New York Saturday all the members of the club acted as honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Wetzel was New York distributor for two Dayton products, the steel wheels made by the Dayton Steel Foundry company and wire wheels made by the Dayton Wire Wheel company and was intimately known by members of those two arganizations (sic).
Mrs. Wetzel and daughters and the members of the special party left for the return trip to New York Sunday afternoon at 5:09 o'clock. The body remained In the vault at Woodland until Monday, the burial being taken care of Monday morning by a sister who resides on a farm near Hamilton.
Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH), Saturday, April 25, 1931; pg. 5
Thomas J. Wetzel - The body of Thomas J. Wetzel, 65, formerly of this city, who died Thursday night at his residence in New York city, will be brought here at 10 a.m. Sunday for burial in Woodland cemetery (sic). Funeral services at one of the Episcopal churches in that city were conducted Saturday afternoon.
Wetzel, who spent the greater part of his life in Dayton, removed to New York city about 25 years ago. He leaves his widow and two daughters.
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The Dayton Herald (Dayton, OH), Monday, April 27, 1931; pg. 24
New York Business Head Laid to Rest in Dayton
Rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, Formerly of This City, Attended by Associates.
Final burial rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, 64, in years past a resident of this city, were held Woodland cemetery (sic) chapel Sunday morning following arrival of the body from New York, accompanied by a special car with his relatives and about 40 of his close friends from the eastern metropolis.
Mr. Wetzel was a manufacturers' agent in the motor car industry, with headquarters in New York and Detroit, and was probably more widely known and beloved in the motor car industry than any other one man, it was stated by his associates who came to Dayton with the body.
NEW YORK SERVICE.
He was a particularly close friend of Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors corporation and Walter P. Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Motor corporation, both of whom had intended coming to Dayton with the group but found other engagements prevented.
However, both attended the funeral services, which were held in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church (sic) in New York, Saturday, and Mr. Chrysler personally made all the arrangements for bringing the body to this city and the special car for his associates.
The funeral party arrived in Dayton at 9:42 Sunday morning, including the survivors, Mrs. Wetzel and two daughters, Jane and Louise, and the group of business associates, and proceeded to Woodland cemetery (sic) immediately.
Mr. Wetzel was born in Springville, Ohio and had joined the Masonic lodge in that city in 1900. A group of Masonic officers and members from that city met the party a the cemetery and had charge of the burial rites.
In his early working years Mr. Wetzel was a brakeman on one of the railroads through. Dayton. His parents, Samuel A. and Roberta Wetzel, removed to Dayton and are buried at Woodland and the body of Mr. Wetzel was consigned to its last resting place besides his parents.
During the time the bicycle had its day Mr. Wetzel was engaged in that business and then entered the automobile game from the start. He was a close friend of the late Charles Stoddard when the latter was in charge of the Stoddard-Dayton automobile plant here.
DEATH WAS SUDDEN.
At that time Mr. Wetzel was connected with the Brown Lipe Gear company and made continual close contacts with Mr. Stoddard through sale of practically all the gears used in the Dayton-made cars to the local car manufacturing company.
From here Mr. Wetzel went to New York and Detroit, enlarging his sphere of action and forming such contacts with mother car manufacturers as to make him particularly outstanding in his line of work for a great many years past.
His death occurred last Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in New York rather suddenly following an attack of heart disease.
He was associated in business with John F. Creamer in the organization of the concern known as Wheels, Inc. Mr. Creamer, who headed the party which came to Dayton, is president of the company and Mr. Wetzel was a director. He was also manager of the Motor Wheel corporation in New York, a Lansing, Mich,, concern In which a number of Dayton people own stock.
He was one of the early members of the Society of Automotive Engineers and one of the first officers and directors of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' association, now the Motor and Equipment association.
Mr. Wetzel maintained his home at Cape Cod and was a member of a large number of eastern clubs, including the Detroit and New York Athletic clubs; the Lambs club, of New York; the Wingfoot Golf club, New York; the Seaview Golf club, Atlantic City and the Question club, with headquarters in New York.
FAMILY RETURNS.
The latter club is a national organization of prominent manufacturers and financiers and it was the members of this club that accompanied the body to Dayton. At the funeral services of Mr. Wetzel held in New York Saturday all the members of the club acted as honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Wetzel was New York distributor for two Dayton products, the steel wheels made by the Dayton Steel Foundry company and wire wheels made by the Dayton Wire Wheel company and was intimately known by members of those two arganizations (sic).
Mrs. Wetzel and daughters and the members of the special party left for the return trip to New York Sunday afternoon at 5:09 o'clock. The body remained In the vault at Woodland until Monday, the burial being taken care of Monday morning by a sister who resides on a farm near Hamilton.
Thomas J. Wetzel - The body of Thomas J. Wetzel, 65, formerly of this city, who died Thursday night at his residence in New York city, will be brought here at 10 a.m. Sunday for burial in Woodland cemetery (sic). Funeral services at one of the Episcopal churches in that city were conducted Saturday afternoon.
Wetzel, who spent the greater part of his life in Dayton, removed to New York city about 25 years ago. He leaves his widow and two daughters.
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The Dayton Herald (Dayton, OH), Monday, April 27, 1931; pg. 24
New York Business Head Laid to Rest in Dayton
Rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, Formerly of This City, Attended by Associates.
Final burial rites for Thomas J. Wetzel, 64, in years past a resident of this city, were held Woodland cemetery (sic) chapel Sunday morning following arrival of the body from New York, accompanied by a special car with his relatives and about 40 of his close friends from the eastern metropolis.
Mr. Wetzel was a manufacturers' agent in the motor car industry, with headquarters in New York and Detroit, and was probably more widely known and beloved in the motor car industry than any other one man, it was stated by his associates who came to Dayton with the body.
NEW YORK SERVICE.
He was a particularly close friend of Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors corporation and Walter P. Chrysler, head of the Chrysler Motor corporation, both of whom had intended coming to Dayton with the group but found other engagements prevented.
However, both attended the funeral services, which were held in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church (sic) in New York, Saturday, and Mr. Chrysler personally made all the arrangements for bringing the body to this city and the special car for his associates.
The funeral party arrived in Dayton at 9:42 Sunday morning, including the survivors, Mrs. Wetzel and two daughters, Jane and Louise, and the group of business associates, and proceeded to Woodland cemetery (sic) immediately.
Mr. Wetzel was born in Springville, Ohio and had joined the Masonic lodge in that city in 1900. A group of Masonic officers and members from that city met the party a the cemetery and had charge of the burial rites.
In his early working years Mr. Wetzel was a brakeman on one of the railroads through. Dayton. His parents, Samuel A. and Roberta Wetzel, removed to Dayton and are buried at Woodland and the body of Mr. Wetzel was consigned to its last resting place besides his parents.
During the time the bicycle had its day Mr. Wetzel was engaged in that business and then entered the automobile game from the start. He was a close friend of the late Charles Stoddard when the latter was in charge of the Stoddard-Dayton automobile plant here.
DEATH WAS SUDDEN.
At that time Mr. Wetzel was connected with the Brown Lipe Gear company and made continual close contacts with Mr. Stoddard through sale of practically all the gears used in the Dayton-made cars to the local car manufacturing company.
From here Mr. Wetzel went to New York and Detroit, enlarging his sphere of action and forming such contacts with mother car manufacturers as to make him particularly outstanding in his line of work for a great many years past.
His death occurred last Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock in New York rather suddenly following an attack of heart disease.
He was associated in business with John F. Creamer in the organization of the concern known as Wheels, Inc. Mr. Creamer, who headed the party which came to Dayton, is president of the company and Mr. Wetzel was a director. He was also manager of the Motor Wheel corporation in New York, a Lansing, Mich,, concern In which a number of Dayton people own stock.
He was one of the early members of the Society of Automotive Engineers and one of the first officers and directors of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' association, now the Motor and Equipment association.
Mr. Wetzel maintained his home at Cape Cod and was a member of a large number of eastern clubs, including the Detroit and New York Athletic clubs; the Lambs club, of New York; the Wingfoot Golf club, New York; the Seaview Golf club, Atlantic City and the Question club, with headquarters in New York.
FAMILY RETURNS.
The latter club is a national organization of prominent manufacturers and financiers and it was the members of this club that accompanied the body to Dayton. At the funeral services of Mr. Wetzel held in New York Saturday all the members of the club acted as honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Wetzel was New York distributor for two Dayton products, the steel wheels made by the Dayton Steel Foundry company and wire wheels made by the Dayton Wire Wheel company and was intimately known by members of those two arganizations (sic).
Mrs. Wetzel and daughters and the members of the special party left for the return trip to New York Sunday afternoon at 5:09 o'clock. The body remained In the vault at Woodland until Monday, the burial being taken care of Monday morning by a sister who resides on a farm near Hamilton.
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