Cowlitz County WA Archives Biographies.....Wertheimer, Robert S. June 20, 1899 - 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ROBERT S. WERTHEIMER, resident manager of the Longview Fibre Company, 
Longview, Washington, has had thorough technical training and possesses high 
qualifications for the responsible position which he holds, in which he is 
rendering capable and efficient service to his company. Mr. Wertheimer was 
born in Los Angeles, California, June 20, 1899, and is a son of Monroe A. and 
Annetta S. (Salz) Wertheimer. The father was born in Ohio, February 2, 1854, 
and is now engaged in the manufacture of paper at Kaukauna, Wisconsin, while 
the mother was born in Stockton, California.

     Robert S. Wertheimer attended the public schools, and Tome Preparatory 
School at Port Deposit, Maryland, after which he entered the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, at Cambridge and was graduated with the degree of 
Bachelor of Science in 1924. He became assistant engineer of the Thilmany Pulp 
and Paper Company, at Kaukauna, Wisconsin, where he remained until 1927, when 
he accepted the position of resident manager of the Longview Fibre Company, 
engaged in making sulphate test liner and machine glazed paper from wood pulp, 
in the manufacture of which it utilizes the Douglas fir refuse from Long-Bell 
Lumber Company also hemlock round wood. The officers of the Longview Fibre 
Company are, M. A. Wertheimer, chairman of the board; H. L. Wollenberg, 
president; D. G. Everest, vice president; and M. T. Ray, secretary and 
treasurer.

     Mr. Wertheimer was married to Miss Kathleen Pepper, who was born in 
Richmond, Virginia, and is a daughter of Edmund M. and Dolly (McWhinney) 
Pepper. Mr. and Mrs. Wertheimer are the parents of three children, namely: 
Philip Monroe, born November 19, 1921; Stephen Pepper, born August 4, 1925; 
and Robert Edmund, born on April 10, 1928. Mr. Wertheimer is a republican in 
his political views and is a member of the Longview Country Club.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
908

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