TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MCBERTY, Fred P. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 208

        FRED P. McBERTY, the resourceful and popular manager of the Federal
Machine & Welder Company, one of the important industrial concerns in the
City of Warren, Trumbull County, claims this city as the place of his
nativity, his birth having here occurred September 25, 1869. He is a son of
Robert and Harriet (Knowles) McBerty, the former of whom was born at
Lockport, New York, in 1833, and the latter of whom was born in
Canandaigua, that state, in 1837. Robert McBerty was reared and educated in
the old Empire State, as was also his wife, their marriage having there
been solemnized in the City of Lockport. Mr. McBerty was twenty-six years
of age when he established his residence at Warren, Ohio, where he long
owned and operated a planing mill, and was a successful business man and
honored and influential citizen. He had the distinction of being a member
of the City Council for three years, as representative of the Third Ward,
and he was a leader in the local councils of the democratic party. The
death of this sterling citizen of Warren occurred in the year 1919, and
here his widow still maintains her home. Of the children the eldest is
Frank R., who is president of the North Electric Company, manufacturers of
telephone apparatus, at Galion, Crawford County, Ohio; Fred P., of this
review, was the next in order of birth, and Carl E. resides in the City of
Chicago, where he holds a position with the American Telegraph & Telephone
Company.
        Fred P. McBerty continued to attend the Warren public schools until
he was seventeen years of age, and thereafter he served an apprenticeship
of three and one-half years in the establishment of the Warren Machine
Works. As a skilled machinist he was next employed one year in the machine
shops of William Tod & Company at Youngstown, and he then returned to
Warren. Here he was employed two years by the Packard Electric Company, and
the ensuing two years found him rendering effective service in the capacity
of master mechanic for the Warren Electric & Specialty Company. The next
year he passes as an electrician in the United States revenue service, with
headquarters at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in 1898 he returned to his native
city and became superintendent of the Warren Electric & Specialty Company.
This position he retained until 1901, when he became superintendent of the
Peerless Electric Company, With this Warren corporation he thus continued
his connection until 1906, and he then organized the Peerless Transformer
company, of which he became the manager. In 1908 the concern was
incorporated under the title of the Enterprise Electric Company, and Mr.
McBerty became superintendent, a post which he retained until 1911, this
company having been engaged in the manufacturing of electric transformers.
The next progressive movement on the part of Mr. McBerty was in the
organization of the National Electric Welder Company, which engaged in the
manufacturing of electric welding machines. He served as secretary,
treasurer and manager of this company until its plant and business were
sold in 1917 to the Federal Machine & Welder Company, with which he has
since continued as manager, the well equipped and thoroughly modern plant
of this company at Warren being situated on Dana Avenue, and the concern
being the largest of its kind in the world. At the factory employment is
given to 150 operatives, and the products of the plant are shipped to all
parts of the world.
        The foregoing brief record indicates that Mr. McBerty has been  .
closely associated with the advancing of the industrial and commercial
interests of his native city, his loyalty to and appreciation of which are
of the most insistent order. He is independent in politics, is a director
of the Warren Manufacturers Association, and is here affiliated with old
Erie Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons and Mahoning Chapter No. 66,
Royal Arch Masons. His somewhat extensive real-estate holding in the City
of Warren include his handsome and modern home property at 29 Washington
Avenue.
        October 14, 1892, marked the marriage of Mr. McBerty and Miss
Minnie Jones, daughter of Daniel Jones, who is a successful contractor and
builder in Warren. Of the children of this first marriage of Mr. McBerty
the following brief record is available: Donald R., born October 4, 1893,
resides in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is engineer of
the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel Works; Paul A., born July 11,
1905, has a position with the Warren & Swasey Company, manufacturers of
machine tools in the City of Cleveland.
        August 10, 1909, recorded the marriage of Fred P. McBerty and Mrs.
Zella A. (Wilson) Helwick, whose parents are deceased, her father, William
Wilson, having been a carpenter and contractor. Mrs. McBerty is secretary
and treasurer of the Federal Machine & Welder Company, of which her husband
is the manager.


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