From Rick B

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

 

HISTORY OF INDIANA FROM ITS EXPLORATION TO 1922 BY LOGAN ESAREY, Ph. D., ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY FROM ITS ORGANIZATION EDITED BY JOHN B. STOLL (Volume III).  "BIOGRAPHICAL", published in Dayton, Ohio by Dayton Historical Publishing Co., 1923, page 186-187.

 

     Max Adler, who is prominently identified with the merchantile interests of South Bend as president and treasurer of the Max Adler Company, is one of the business men of the St. Jospeh county seat who has been the architect of his own fortunes and who has risen from small beginnings to position and business preeminence.  Mr. Adler was born in Germany, in 1874, and was there given the rudiments of an educational training.  When he was fourteen years of age he was brought this country to enjoy the greater advantages and opportunities offered to aspiring youths of all lands, and immediately secured a position with relatives, the Adler Brothers, in the capacity of clerk.  During the following two decades Mr. Adler worked his way slowly but surely up the ladder.  He was industrious and faithful and as he passed through each stage of the industry he familiarized himself thoroughly with its every detail.  In 1908 he was ready to embark in business in a venture of his own, and accordingly, in partnership with Gus Peterson, opened a modest establishment at No. 108 West Washington Street.  The partnership continued until 1913, when it was mutually dissolved, and in the following year Mr. Adler founded the firm of Max Adler Company, of which he has since been president and treasurer, Louis E. Rose being the secretary.  The building occupied by his modern merchantile establishment, located at Nos. 102 and 104 South Michigan Street, is up-to-date in all appointments, and is 165X40 feet in its dimensions, there being three stories.  The business has been enlarged to substantial proportions through a business policy of honorable dealing and fair play, and Mr. Adler's well-known integrity has had much to do with the prosperity of the enterprise.  He belongs to several civic bodies and to a number of fraternal and social orgaizations, while his business connections are numerous.  He has not sought public office.
     In 1911 Mr. Adler was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Strauss, of Buffalo, New York, and to this union there have been born two daughters:  Mildred and Ruth.