JOSEPH E. PFLUEGER

Akron Topics           April 1930

A guide of the Limitless Beyond met Joseph E. Pflueger at the Border, and he passed over the Divide an hour or two after sunset. This was on Monday evening, May 19.

Services which marked the leave-taking of one of America's well known and much loved out-of-doors men were in charge of the Knights Templar at the Pflueger home on Ash Street, Thursday afternoon, May 22.

Mr. Pflueger was in his 66th year. His birthplace was in Erie, Pa., but from the age of four his home was in Akron -- in Akron and on the lakes and streams and in the great out of doors  of many parts ofAmerica.

In the business of the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., with which his name was is  1ong   associated as vice-president and superintendent, his work was of utmost value in the building of this of important factor among Akron's industries to its present magnitude. More than a score of inventions relating to fishing rods, reels and lures were credited to him.

Though a consistent man of business, M r. Pflueger was faithful to his favorite pastime and, moreover, he gave freely of himself and his time to the advancement of the true fisherman's ideals and the preservation of natural beauties and resources. He was one of the of organizers and a former executive of the League of Ohio -- an honorary position recently voted him. He was a vice-president of the Save Outdoor Ohio Council and, upon the creation of the State Board of Conservation, a movement in which he had done excellent work, he was appointed to that body of Governor Cooper. His name was familiar to nature lovers and the outdoor fraternity in both the States and Canada.

His Guide had been little expected until recently, but “Uncle Joe” Pflueger was and for a long had been well outfitted for the journey.

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Honored

Akron Topics                August 1931

Unusual distinction came to Ernest A. Pflueger, president of the Enterprise Manufacturing Company, and for eleven years president of The Fishing Tackle Manufacturers’ Association, when that body again elected him to the presidency at its recent annual convention. In his address to the convention, Mr. Pflueger especially emphasized conservation and praised the work of the Izaak Walton League.

Among other activities of the past year the association assisted the Walton League of Florida in pressing for passage a bill prohibiting sale of black bass. This law would be similar to Ohio’s legislation on the same subject.

Mr. Pflueger told the convention that the fishing tackle industry had felt the depression less than many other lines of manufacturing, yet had done a decreased business. He interpreted the signs of the present times as pointing to a substantial start toward business recovery within the present year. He urged maintaining wage rates and profitable selling prices.

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