Horologists Visit Elgin Factory

From Horology magazine, October1939

Horologists Visit Elgin Factory

Host to members of the Chicago Horological Association on an all-day sightseeing and get-acquainted trip recently was the Elgin National Watch Company.


A group of twenty-seven watchmakers, all members of the Chicago Horological Association, gathered early the morning of August 23, in the Chicago offices of the Elgin Company where they were greeted by Howard D. Schaeffer, vice-president.  In a chartered bus the visitors were taken to Elgin where they spent the day going through various departments of the plant and the Elgin Watchmakers' College.


The group was entertained at lunch at the Elgin Country Club with James G. Shennan, factory superintendent, as host.

H. W. Johnson, Chicago, Ill.; K. Hedin, Chicago, Ill.; J. B. Spaulding, Chicago, Ill.; Erwin H. Camp, Chicago, II.; J. F. Macke, Chicago, Ill.; Paul C. Elder, Chicago, Ill.; J. Thomas Harley, Chicago, Ill.; Fred Attermeyer, Chicago, III.; Julius Adams, Chicago, Ill.; Herman Krel Evanston, Ill.; L. G. Albert, Chicago, Ill.; Steve V. Pappas, Elgin, Ill.; C. J. Bellanger, Chicago, Ill.; Alfred Schierer, Chicago, Ill.; A. H. Willnow, Chicago, Ill.; A. H. Gustafson, Chicago, Ill.; C. E. Bromund, Chicago, Ill.; Frank Jacobs, Chicago, Ill.; Karl Kneisel, Wheaton, Ill.; L. E. Harlan, Chicago, Ill.; Jack H. Lund, Chicago, Ill.; O. L. Walker, Chicago, Ill.; Irving G. Jensen, Chicago, Ill.; James A. Hall, Chicago, Ill.; Carl H. Ander, Chicago, Ill.; Ralph Bersat, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; and Bernard Fanchi. Chicago, Ill.