HURON COUNTY OHIO - BIO: RETTIG, Carl B.  (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 16, 17

        CARL B. RETTIG has the progressiveness and energy that make him an
effective executive in his service as sales manager for the Waddell Steel
company located in the City of Niles, Trumbull County, a corporation that
has done much to further the civic and industrial advancement of this vital
Ohio city.
        Mr. Rettig was born at Willard, Huron County, Ohio, on the 5th of
October, 1893. His father, John Leonard Rettig, was born near Holgate,
Henry County, Ohio, in the year 1840, and was a resident of Willard, Huron
County, at the time of his death, in 1900. He was reared to the sturdy
discipline of the farm and during the course of his entire independent
career he continued his successful association with farm enterprise. In
1870 he purchased and established his home on an excellent farm near
Willard, Huron County, and he continued actively as one of the
representative farmers of that county until 1893, when he retired from his
farm to the village of Willard, where he remained until his death. His
widow survived him about nine years, and her death there occurred in 1909.
Both were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, and his political
alignment was with the republican party. He was affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republican, he having b
een a member of an Ohio regiment in the Civil war and having given gallant
service in the great conflict by which the integrity of the nation was
preserved. Mrs. Rettig whose maiden name was Hannah Carson, was born near
Holgate, Henry County, in 1849, both she and her husband having been reared
and educated in that county, where their marriage was solemnized. Of the
children the eldest, Elmer E., is a retired farmer residing at Baltimore,
Fairfield County, this state; Mrs. Nellie Jackson, whose husband is a
railroad employe, residing at Willard, was thirty-six years of age, at the
time of her death; Melvin O. is a successful lawyer in the City of Toledo;
Adelbert S. is engaged in the steel brokerage business at Kansas City,
Missouri; Lettie is the wife of Albert Behn, a railroad machinist, and they
reside at Willard, Huron County; and Carl B., of this sketch is the
youngest of the number.
        Carl B. Rettig was graduated from the high school at Willard as a
member of the class of 1910, and thereafter he entered historic old Kenyon
College, at Gambier, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated in 1914,
with the degree of Bachelor of Science, he having there become affiliated
with the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. In the year of his graduation Mr. Rettig
entered the employ of the Briar Hill Steel Company at Youngstown, Mahoning
County, and about two years later he retired from this position with this
corporation to enter the nation's military service in connection with the
troubles on the Mexican border. He enlisted July 1, 1916, and was assigned
to service with the Third Field Hospital Corps, a Youngstown organization,
with which he served ten months on the Texas-Mexican border. When the
United States entered the World war, in April, 1917, Mr. Rettig was sent to
the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and there on
the 15th of August, 1917, he w
as commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He was
shortly afterward assigned to service with the Twenty-fourth United States
Cavalry at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming, and three months later he was
transferred with this command to Houston, Texas. One month later he was
assigned to the Twentieth Field Artillery at Leon Springs, near San
Antonio, that state, and four months later he entered the School of Fire at
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he remained ten months. He was then transferred
to Camp Upton, New York, and on the 15th of May, 1918, he embarked at
Montreal, Canada, for overseas service. He landed with this command at
Liverpool, England, and thence proceeded across the channel to France,
where he landed, at Le Havre, on the 1st of June, 1918. He took part in the
now historic Vosges and St. Mihiel offensives, as well as those of the
Meuse-Argonne and the Metz, and in July, 1918, he was promoted to the rank
of first lieutenant, the following October having recorded
his advancement to the brevet rank of captain. After the signing of the
armistice he was with the allied Army of Occupation in Germany, where he
was stationed at Luxemburg. After his return to the United States he
continued in service in the Regular Army until October, 1920, when he
received his honorable discharge. For nine months thereafter he was engaged
in the brokerage business at El Paso, Texas, and he then came to Niles,
Ohio, in May, 1921, and on the first of the following August he was made
secretary of the Niles Chamber of Commerce, serving until February, 1924,
when he resigned to take up his present work.
        Mr. Rettig is a thoroughgoing republican in politics and he and his
wife are members of the United Brethren Church. In his home city Mr.
Rettig's Masonic affiliations are with Mahoning Lodge No. 394, Free and
Accepted Masons, and Niles Chapter No. 223, Royal Arch Masons, of which
last named organization he is the secretary (1923). At Warren, the county
seat, he is affiliated with Warren Council No. 66, Royal and Select
Masters, and Warren Commandery No. 39, Knights Templar. His Scottish Rite
affiliations are with the Consistory at San Antonio, Texas, in the southern
jurisdiction and in the same he has received the thirty-second degree,
besides which is a Noble of El Maida Temple of the Mystic Shrine at El
Paso, Texas. His is one of the most loyal and popular members of William
McKinley Post No. 126, American Legion, at Niles, and had the distinction
of serving as its commander in 1921.
        August 18, 1917, recorded the marriage of Mr. Rettig and Miss Selma
Evans, who was born and reared at Niles, and who is a popular figure in the
representative social activities of her native city.


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