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Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p. 167-168 THEODORE L. MEIER. Theodore L. Meier is at the head of one of the important commercial interests of Denver as the president of the O. P. Baur Confectionery Company, conducting business at No. 1512 Curtis street. He is very enterprising and progressive and has been active in the upbuilding of a business which is now the most widely known confectionery establishment in the west. Mr. Meier was reared in Louisville, Kentucky, and there pursued his education in the public schools. When a youth of fourteen he was apprenticed to a confectioner, with whom he learned all phases and branches of the trade, and on completing his apprenticeship he sought larger fields in which to test out his efficiency in the line in which he had been trained. He was afterward employed in the leading confectionery establishments of Boston, New York and other eastern cities. Hearing favorable reports of the west and its wonderful opportunities, he concluded to seek his fortune in this section of the country and accordingly in the fall of 1878 he arrived in Denver, where he Immediately found employment with the firm of Caldwell & Baur, who were pioneer confectioners of the city and had built up the leading business in their line. They were then located at the corner of Sixteenth and Lawrence streets. The business had been originally established during the early '70s and the present business is an outgrowth of that pioneer establishment. Several years after Caldwell & Baur had been conducting business Mr. Baur withdrew from that connection and established an individual business on Larimer street. Mr. Meier accompanied him and at that point the business developed rapidly and grew to such proportions that it necessitated a removal to the present location at No. 1512 Curtis street. This removal was made in 1892. During the latter '80s Mr. Meier had become a member of the firm, the business being then conducted under the style of O. P. Baur & Company. That name was retained until Mr. Baur's death, when the business was incorporated, Mr. Meier becoming the president, with Mrs. Marie Baur as vice president and J. J. Jacobs, who has been with the company for fifteen years, as secretary and treasurer. The O. P. Baur Confectionery Company is doing by far the largest business of the kind in the state. The company employs on an average one hundred and twenty- five people engaged in the manufacture of the entire product put out by the establishment. Their store is attractively and tastefully arranged and furnished and every effort is put forth to please the patrons. They manufacture high grade confectionery of a variety seldom found outside of New York. They have ever maintained the highest standards in the quality of their output and their candies have proven so uniformly satisfactory that their business has now reached most gratifying and substantial proportions. Mr. Meier through thorough preliminary training and long experience is splendidly qualified to carry on an extensive business of this kind. He closely studies the trade and its wishes and his efforts have been so directed that prosperity in large measure has come to him. He is also a director of the Home Savings & Trust Company of Denver. In this city, in 1892, Mr. Meier was united in marriage to Miss Edna F. Ervin, a native of Ohio. and they have one daughter, Doris, who is the wife of C. F. Mulconnery, a resident of Denver. There are also two grandchildren. Mr. Meier is much interested in political and civic matters and he takes an active and helpful part in charitable work in the city, constantly extending a helping hand to those who need assistance, seeking to ameliorate hard conditions for the unfortunate and shedding around him much of life's sunshine. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He is also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he has membership in the Chamber of Commerce and in the Lakewood Country Club. His ability has brought him prominently to the front in business connections, while his personal qualities are those which make for popularity among a large circle of friends. For forty years he has been a resident of Denver and throughout this entire period has occupied an enviable position in its business circles.