Saturday, May 27, 2006

Moder-Kreutzer Bottling Co. in Peru



John J. Kreutzer attended St. Mary's Institute in Dayton, Ohio and studied at the the university of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He worked with his father in the mercantile business, then held a position at the First National Bank of Peru, and then assumed a position of clerk and bookkeeper in the offices of the Cole Brewery. In 1889, John he became interested in glass manufacturing. When the natural gas failed and it became unprofitable he then became an active executive of the Peru Grocery Company until 1908.
John J. Kruetzer married Rosa Ebah, of Stuebenville, Ohio in 1885. From that union they parented thirteen children.

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