TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - WADE, Curtis N. (published 1925) 
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Page III, page 381 with photo

        CURTIS N. WADE, president of the Canton Provision Company, has been
identified with the meat business as a retailer, wholesaler, and packer in
Stark county for over thirty years.
        He was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 10, 1864, was
raised on a farm and had a country school education. He remained on the
farm until 1893 and then established a retail meat business in Massillon.
After eight years he then moved to Canton and engaged in the wholesale meat
business, taking over the old plant of the Canton Provision Company,
located on Maple Avenue. Several years after the present site was acquired
and a new and modern plant erected in 1906. Additions have been made from
time to time and all the buildings are of modern concrete and brick
construction, the main building being three stories and basement. The
Canton Provision Company is one of the leading meat packing plants in this
section of Ohio and set a standard of the highest quality, being especially
noted for their high class "Canton Brand hams, bacon and sausage products.
Curtis N. Wade is president; Frank Wade, vice president; Murray I. Rank,
secretary and treasurer.
        Mr. Wade is a member of the Masonic order, the Rotary Club, and is
a republican in politics. He married Miss Mary Rank of Wichita, Kansas.
They have two children, George L., plant superintendent of the Canton
Provision Company, and Ellen, wife of Robert B. Hogan, who is also
connected with the company.



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