BIO: Martin F. Kaiser; Buffalo, Erie, Co., NY

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History of Northwestern New York: Erie, Niagara, Wyoming, Genesee and
Orleans Counties.
Lewis Historical Pub. Company, pub. about 1947 (?)
Vol. 3 Biographies

MARTIN F. KAISER
Long active in Buffalo business life, Martin F. Kaiser is president and a
director of the Kaiser Fuel Corporation.

Mr. Kaiser was born November 27, 1896, in Buffalo, New York, son of Martin and
Eliza (Lawson) Kaiser. His grandfather, Carl Kaiser, was the founder of the
coal business that developed into the present Kaiser Fuel Corporation.
Originally established by Carl Kaiser in 1879, the business was subsequently
operated by the founder’s two sons, Charles A. and Martin Kaiser; and at a
still later period the third generation of the Kaiser family came into the
business. Martin Kaiser, Martin F. Kaiser's father, was one of the
representatives of the business as far as the Kaiser family name was concerned
from 1881 until his death in 1942. He was active in Buffalo Masonic circles
and in the Buffalo Athletic Club and other organizations.

His son. Martin F. Kaiser, of the third generation, attended Buffalo public
schools and was graduated from Lafayette High School here. Then he entered
Syracuse University, where he was graduated in 1919. Meanwhile he rendered
wartime service to his country during the First World War, entering the naval
aviation service in Boston. After the restoration of peace, he entered the
Kaiser Coal Company in 1920. remaining with the organization as it developed
into the present Kaiser Fuel Corporation and becoming president of the newer
company. The firm style was changed in 1944. As president, Mr. Kaiser is
capably assisted by a splendid staff of officers— Charles A. Kaiser,
secretary-treasurer, and Charles A. Kaiser, Jr., vice-president and
secretary—and many loyal workers who have been with the company for years.

In addition to his work with the Kaiser Fuel Corporation, Martin F. Kaiser is
a member of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, the Buffalo Club, the Buffalo
Country Club and the Buffalo Advertising Club. and is a past president of the
Buffalo Automobile Club. He belongs to the North Presbyterian Church. Hunting,
fishing and golf are favorite sparetime recreations of Mr. Kaiser. He derives
a great deal of satisfaction from his work in the Free and Accepted Masons, in
which he belongs to Transportation Lodge, No. 842, Buffalo Consistory of the
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Ismailia Temple (Buffalo) of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member also of the Royal
Order of Jesters.

Martin F. Kaiser married, October 1, 1921, in Buffalo, New York, Edna V. Ebbs,
of this city, daughter of William W. and Anna (Voss) Ebbs. They are the
parents of a son, Robert A. Kaiser, born February 15, 1930, in Buffalo, who
became a student at the Nichols School, in this city.