It took Rohwedder several years to recoup his losses and assemble investors and financing for another go-at-it. Unfortunately, the prototype and the blueprints were tragically destroyed by a fire at the Monmouth, Illinois factory in November, 1917. He sold his jewelry stores and used the funds to finance his new venture. He spent several months working on a prototype which included the sliced bread being held together by metal pins. Convinced that such an invention would work, he returned to Davenport at the end of 1916. Joseph, Missouri.īeginning in 1912 Otto toyed with an idea for a bread slicing machine that would revolutionize the baking business. Rohwedder was a jeweler by profession, and owned three jewelry stores in St. He married Carrie Johnson (1880-1955) in 1905, and the couple had two children. Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960) was a native of Davenport, Iowa, and grew up there.
That bread slicing machine has an Albion connection, which we’ll write about in this week’s Historical Notebook. If you go to most bakeries, chances are good that you’ll see a bread slicing machine sitting there someplace where you can have your loaf sliced fresh for you. Have you ever wondered who thought up the way to commercially slice and package loaves of bread we purchase in grocery stores? Instead of purchasing loaves whole and having to cut pieces with a knife yourself, bread comes to us today in even slices in plastic bags. BREAD SLICER INVENTOR LIVED IN ALBION - Historical Albion MichiganĪny photos not otherwise credited are from the personal collection of Frank Passic, Albion Historian.
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