Background
Sauder was born in Archbold, Ohio, to Daniel and Anne (Schrock) Sauder. At first Sauder made kitchen cabinets in the town where he was born.
Sauder was born in Archbold, Ohio, to Daniel and Anne (Schrock) Sauder. At first Sauder made kitchen cabinets in the town where he was born.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Defiance (Ohio) College, 1985; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), North Technology College, Archbold, 1987.
He invented a knock-down table in 1951 that could be assembled by the average person with minimal skills. The line expanded into cocktail tables, lamp tables, end tables, step tables and corner tables. This started the ready-to-assemble furniture industry.
Sauder worked at the Archbold Ladder Company in his home town before he started his own business in 1934.
He also manufactured other wood products based on requests. Early on in his new business a large order came in from a local chicken hatchery farm that needed certain specialized sticks to insert between incubator cages.
The order was enough to feed their family at five dollars per week. Sauder was awarded a contract to build new pews for the church.
This introduced his business into church furniture and eventually his company became a leading manufacturer of church furniture throughout the nation.
He continued to make specialized wood cabinets, church furniture and pews, and wooden occasional tables throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1954, because of his further interest in the ready-to-assemble furniture business, Sauder divided up his company and formed the Sauder Manufacturing Company. This new company took on the manufacturing of church pews, while the "snap-together" furniture continued at Sauder Woodworking Company.
The Sauder furniture business remains in the same place.
lieutenant is the fifth largest residential furniture manufacturer in America and the world"s leading manufacturer of ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture. During his retirement years, he created Sauder Village, a nineteenth century historical outdoor museum showing life of that time period in Ohio.
The Barn Restaurant is also under the Sauder family ownership, founded in 1976. The building itself was created in 1861 and modeled in the 1970s to be a family style restaurant by the Sauder family.
The common meal at the Barn Restaurant is their buffet which consists of mashed potatoes and broasted chicken which is served daily, along with roast beef, ham, pork chops, and the soup and salad Barometer
There are many other fix-ins that vary throughout the week.
Trustee Defiance College. Overseer Goshen College. Treasurer Ohio-Eastern Mission Board, since 1978.
President, board of trustees Sunshine Children's Home, others
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Son of Daniel D. and Anna (Schrock) S. M. Leona Short, June 23, 1927 (deceased November 1974). Children: Delmar, Maynard, Myrl.
M. Orlyss Alline Short, February 1, 1976.