AUGLAIZE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: WENDELN, OLIVER BERNARD (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page149

        OLIVER BERNARD WENDELN, resident chemist of the Pure Oil Company
Refinery, Cabin Creek Junction, West Virginia, was born at Saint Marys,
Ohio, October 18, 1900. Oliver Bernard Wendeln is a son of Antone F. and
Lula (Jay) Wendeln, and he was reared in a home of refined influences, for
his father was a practicing attorney and a graduate of Wesleyan College,
Delaware, Ohio. In 1904, after years spent in the practice of his learned
profession, Antone F. Wendeln died at Saint Marys, but his wife survives
him and is now residing at Los Angeles, California. She was born and reared
at Saint Marys, and after she had completed the public school courses she
entered Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, from which she was later
graduated. All her life she has taken an intelligent part in community
work, and has been active in the Presbyterian Church, of which she is a
member. She is also a member of the Eastern Star. Four children were born
to the parents, of whom two died in infancy. Mr. Wendeln is the youngest
born, his elder sister, being Mariam, who married John P. Campbell, a
retail hardware merchant of Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell
had one child, Jay Mathers Campbell, who died at the age of seven years. It
is with them that Mrs. Wendeln is now living.
        Oliver Bernard Wendeln attended the public schools of Saint Marys,
completing the first two years at Rutgers Preparatory School, New
Brunswick, New Jersey. Following that he was a student of Purdue University
for one year, and completed his work in the University of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1923. While in Purdue
University he was made a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and to the
Presbyterian Church. In political faith he is a Republican.
        After graduating from the university he was with the Shell Oil
Company, Martinez, California, for a few months, leaving it for the Pure
Oil Company at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Later he was transferred to its Columbus,
Ohio, plant, as geologist. In 1925 he was brought to Cabin Creek Junction
as resident chemist, and here he has been continued. Mr. Wendeln is
unmarried. Needless to say he is enthusiastic with reference to the
possibilities of West Virginia, for he not only likes it, but he has
trained and technical knowledge of geological formations which makes it
possible for him to predict the future, for he knows what wealth has been
stored up during past ages, some of which can now be released for the
profit and comfort of this generation.


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