Hamilton County OhArchives Biographies.....Bacon, George M. 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com October 11, 2005, 11:07 am Author: John C Hover, et.al. George M. Bacon, treasurer and general manager of the J. Baum Safe & Lock Company, is one of the successful business men of Cincinnati. He was born in the city of Madisonville, Ohio, May 21, 1873, and after completing his studies in the public schools he entered the Baum Safe Company, and has remained with its successor the J. Baum Safe & Lock Company, rising through successive promotions to his present position. Mr. Bacon maintains membership with the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Club and is a forceful factor in the industrial and commercial life of the city. The J. Baum Safe & Lock Company was organized May 26, 1916 to succeed the Baum Safe Company, established in 1893 to succeed the Warth-Baum Safe Company. In 1903, Mr. Baum bought out the Warth interests. On December 17, 1915 J. Baum died, and subsequently the present company was incorporated. The present officials are: A. L. Baum, president; George M. Bacon, treasurer and general manager; Mrs. Mary B. Birmbyn, vice-president and secretary. This company is capitalized at $180,000, and gives employment to 150 people. The products of the company include safes, vaults and deposit boxes, and the company has its own patents on the fronts and backs of safes, as described herein: The new method is a plate made of No. 165 gauge iron steel and larger, which is flanged into a solid form which makes the back and front of the safe. By making the safe in. this manner of one piece, it does away with the mitred corners; it does away with riveting the back, in the old method. It eliminates using angle iron bars mitred out at all corners. It does away with drilling holes to rivet the back and the front mitres. It obviates using a lapped bar to connect the frame and the mitred joints at all four corners. Should any of the corners be melted off in the old method, the safe would fall apart, but on the new style, herein described, if the corners were melted off, or should any part of the safe be melted off, the flanges will hold the body of the safe together; there being no part to .let go, as it is all one solid piece, therefore the entire part would have to melt off before the safe would lose any of its strength. By making the safe in this new method, the material used for the back and door plates is much heavier than other concerns use, on account of flanging the entire sheet. The J. Baum Safe & Lock Company can afford to make safes in this manner, and still compete with other concerns, by saving the labor of riveting and fitting. This company is the first concern to manufacture a square flange on plates heavier than one-fourth inch thick, and their safes placed alongside of any other make of the same size, will speak for itself. The company does an extensive jobbing business, and the territory covered by sales embraces all of the United States and all of the leading foreign cities, and the trade shows a steady and healthy increase annually. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hamilton/bios/bacon107gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb