Olof Tångring

Äktenskap med Ida Elmira Nataria Berg (1879 - 1968)

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" Olaf Tangring is superintendent at the New Haven works of the American Steel & Wire Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, that most gigantic enterprise of the United States, having mammoth plants located in every section of the country. In the New Haven establishment are employed over seven hundred men, the plant covering in its various departments fifteen acres on Fairmont avenue and on the water front of New Haven. This immense industry has for its directing head a most able executive—Mr. Tangring, who shows marked capability and resourcefulnesss in superintending the company's great plant and enjoys in the fullest measure the confidence of the officers of the corporation which he thus represents.
Mr. Tangring is a native of Sweden. He was born on the 8th of March, 1865, of the marriage of Olaf and Marie (Hultman) Tangring, both of whom were natives of that country. The father engaged in the iron manufacturing business in Sweden and died while still a young man. The mother also spent her entire life there and reached an advanced age, passing away in 1915. In their family were three children, John, Olaf and Christina, but only the subject of this review has come to the new world.
In his youthful days Olaf Tangring served an apprenticeship in the mechanical depart-ment of a steel plant and continued to work at his trade through its various branches until qualified to take up the master's end of the business. Attracted by the opportunities of the new world, he came to America in 1887, when a young man of twenty-two, making his way first to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was employed by the Washburn-Moen Manufacturing Company, and later went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was identified with iron manufacturing interests until 1891. He then returned to his native land, where he resided until 1895, in the meantime taking a course in a school of mines, but again he heard and heeded the call of America and after once more reaching her shores took up his abode in Worcester, Massachusetts. There he was employed in the mechanical and later in the drafting department of the American Wire & Steel Company and about 1904 was made superintendent of the wire rope department. In 1914 he was transferred to the New Haven branch in charge of the wire rope department and filled that position until July, 1915, when he was made superintendent of the entire plant, with executive powers over the work, so that he is now directing the efforts of about seven hundred employes. Much of the responsibility for the success of this large industry devolves upon him. Long experience has thoroughly qualified him for his important duties, so that he is able to speak and act in authoritative manner upon every phase of the work.
In 1900 Mr. Tangring was married to Miss Elmira N. Berg, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a daughter of Carl and Mary Berg, and they have become parents of two children: Hilda, who was born in Worcester in 1905; and Edward, born in Worcester in 1912. Mr. Tangring belongs to Worcester Lodge, A. F. & A. M. He is a fine example of what persistent, conscientious, hard work will do for a man in any line of activity. His career with this company is a refutation of the oft repeated statement: "Oh, it was all right years ago when you could start at the bottom and climb to the top, but you can't do that nowadays." Evidently Mr. Tangring didn't place any faith in that theory. When he became connected with the American Steel & Wire Company he started in to work and work hard, and he has never lost the habit. In business life he is untiring—full of energy and zeal for the success of the enterprise. He has manifold responsibility in his present position and puts forth every effort to measure up to the high standard of service which is the ideal of the company. He has always been more concerned about what he could do for the company than what the company could do for him, and it has been this devotion to the interests of his employers, combined with his expert practical knowledge, that has led to his advance-ment. "

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