Mid-States Shoe So

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Mid-States Shoe Co

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1956

01 05 William Beisner, who left Watertown nearly two years ago to accept a position with a shoe manufacturing concern in Palmyra, Pa., has returned to the city and has rejoined the Mid-States Shoe Company, with which he was employed in an executive capacity before he left. For a number of years before he left, Beisner was in charge of the operations of the Mid-States plant at Waterloo under the superintendency of William Schumann. He is returning to Mid-States employ in the capacity of a “roving quality man,” Mr. Schumann announces, and in that position will be associated with all Mid-States plants. In addition to Watertown and Waterloo, Mid-States operates plants at Waupun and Fox Lake. WDT

1959

05 12 One of the city's prominent and well known industrialists, William A. Schumann, director of production for the Mid-States Shoe Company, and vice president of the firm, will retire on July 1. He will be 70 on July 30. Mr. Schumann has been associated with Mid-States and its predecessors for the last 48 years, and all told has been associated with the shoe manufacturing business here for the last 53 years.

07 02 William A. Schumann, 109 North Maple Street, today retired from the shoe manufacturing business, with which he has been associated for 53 years. The last 48 years were spent with the Mid-States Shoe Co. here and its predecessors. At the time of his retirement today Mr. Schumann was director of production and vice president of the company. He first went to work on Sept. 5, 1905, and worked in various capacities in a series of shoe manufacturing concerns which led to the Mid-States Shoe Co. operation in the city. Among them were the M. D. Wells Co., Beals and Torry, the Beals-Pratt Shoe Manufacturing Co., and the Walter Booth Shoe Co. Mr. Booth died in 1936 and the following year the concern became the Mid-States Shoe Co. WDT

11 11 International recognition and honor have come to a product of The House of Crosby Square, shoes manufactured by the Mid-States Shoe Co. which operates plants in Watertown and Waterloo. The 1959 National Samples Fair of Rome, Italy awarded its three highest honors to The House of Crosby Square - including the Grand Cup Trophy of Honor, the highest honor that can be conferred by the fair; the Gold Medal, the second highest honor; and the third highest honor, the Diploma of Merit. The awards went to the Caesar Process shoes which the company manufactures and which were sent to Italy for the exhibition. WDT

Cross References:

Beals-Torrey Shoe Company