. History of Milwaukee, city and county . a membership in the NationalMetal Trades Association. Theodore 0. Vilter was ever a close student of businessconditions and the public demand along the line of trade in which he engaged, andso directed his efforts and activities that gratifying results accrued. Mr. Vilter wasnot only a splendid executive but also a highly skilled mechanic. He could enter anydepartment of his factory, take a tool from the hands of any workman and use itwith skill and precision, owing to the fact that he had worked in every department,being at different times a machinist
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . a membership in the NationalMetal Trades Association. Theodore 0. Vilter was ever a close student of businessconditions and the public demand along the line of trade in which he engaged, andso directed his efforts and activities that gratifying results accrued. Mr. Vilter wasnot only a splendid executive but also a highly skilled mechanic. He could enter anydepartment of his factory, take a tool from the hands of any workman and use itwith skill and precision, owing to the fact that he had worked in every department,being at different times a machinist, salesman and executive. On the 16th of February, 1884, Mr. Vilter was united in marriage to Miss BerthaMeiners, who was born and reared in Milwaukee and is a daughter of the late JohnMeiners, who was at one time a leading business man of the city. Mr. and had four children: Erna; Alma; Ida; and Theodore, Jr., who died at the ageof two years. Mr. Vilter was not only a very successful business man but he was much more. He at. THEODORE O. VILTER IllSTOHV OK .MILWAIKKE 141 all times recognized and met his duties ami oliligations in citizenship and to hisfellowmen. and he was the champion and supporte- of many projects contributing tothe welfare and upbuilding of the comnuinity. He served for some time as a trustee ofthe German-English Academy, in which he completed his education, and tliat he waaa factor in the social life of the community is shown in his membership in theWisconsin Club, the Milwaukee Turnverein and the Knights of Pythias. He belongedto the Association of Commerce, of which he was one of the directors, to the Amer-ican Society of Refrigerating Engineers, to the American Society of Mechanical En-gineers and also to the sewerage commission of Milwaukee. He attended the Inter-national Convention of Refrigerating Engineers at Vienna, Austria, in 1910, andthrough his efforts brought the convention to Chicago. Illinois, in the year 1913. Oneof the unique ach
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