CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: STERN, Ben (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA IN HISTORY, LIFE, LITERATURE AND INDUSTRY.
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume IV, page 287

        BEN STERN, president and manager of the Stern Sales & Supply
Company at Wheeling, grew up at Cleveland, learned the electrical trade
there and was in the electrical supply business for a number of years
before moving to Wheeling.
        He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, January 23, 1882, son of Frank and
Celia (Rosenfelt) Stern. His parents were born in Austria, of Jewish stock,
and on coming to American settled at Cleveland when young people. His
father was a cigar merchant in this city until 1920, when he retired.
        Ben Stern was reared and educated in Cleveland, attending the
Central Institute of that city. After leaving school he took up electrical
work, was made night wire chief of the Cleveland Telephone Company, and
after examination entered the City Civil Service, serving one year as an
electrical inspector. He resigned this position to engage in the electrical
construction business, and for twelve years enjoyed a growing and
prosperous business at Cleveland.
        Mr. Stern moved to Wheeling in 1924, purchasing the Banner-Mahoning
Furnace Company. Since then he has conducted the business as the Stern
Sales & Supply Company. The headquarters of the company are at 928 Market
Street. The company handles an extensive line of ranges, furnaces and hot
water heaters, does business as electrical contractors, also painting and
decorating, and has facilities for complete home building service. The
company supplies a general building service for the Ohio Valley Development
Company, of which Mr. Stern is vice president and secretary.
        Mr. Stern married, August 3, 1912, Miss Ethel A. Spears, daughter
of John and Jennie Spears, her father a native of Canada and her mother of
Holland. Her father died in 1898 and her mother resides at Cleveland. The
two children of Mr. and Mrs. Stern are Arthur Maurice, born August 17,
1914, and Dorothy Leah, born September 12, 1915. Mr. Stern is affiliated
with the B.P.O. Elks, Civitan Club, and is a Republican.


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