Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . ANDREW MILTON KISTLER IN no phase of lifes activities do ability, intelligence, energy,and unswerving attention to duty count for more or bringmore certain advancement than in the industrial world. Here a man is measured by results, and there is room at thetop only for those who produce them. To such, the highway ofsuccess is an open thoroughfare, and years of unceasing applica-tion and patient toil are inevitably marked by steady this i


Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . ANDREW MILTON KISTLER IN no phase of lifes activities do ability, intelligence, energy,and unswerving attention to duty count for more or bringmore certain advancement than in the industrial world. Here a man is measured by results, and there is room at thetop only for those who produce them. To such, the highway ofsuccess is an open thoroughfare, and years of unceasing applica-tion and patient toil are inevitably marked by steady this is true is well illustrated in the career of Andrew MiltonKistler of Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, who in1888 entered the Boston office of the wholesale leather establish-ment of Kistler, Lesh and Company, and has steadily risen in itsservice. In 1892 he became junior partner, and to-day is thesenior member of the great industrial enterprise—the BurkeTannery at Morganton, which ranks among the important indus-tries of the South. Andrew M. Kistler was born at Sciota, Monroe County,Pennsylvania, September 21, 1871, a son of Char


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