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Gustavus Loehr

Mining engineer and one of the four men at the first Rotary meeting on 23 February 1905, which he hosted in his office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in Chicago. Also recorded as Gustave Henry Loehr.

Role
Founding Member
Era
Founding · 1905

Of all the 'Gang of Four', Gustave Henry Loehr (far left), usually described as a 'mining engineer', is in some ways the least well remembered since like Hiram Shorey, he only remained in Rotary for a very short time.

Like Silvester Schiele, Gus Loehr was from a German background. Unlike Schiele, he was a first generation American, born in Carlinville, Macoupin County, Illinois, not too far from Chicago on 18 October 1864,…

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