Joseph N. Boesch
Although a comparatively young man, Joseph N. Boesch is well known as a leading merchant tailor of Dayton and also as the president of the National Oil Pump & Tank Company. By reason of his business ability he has rapidly forged his way to the front ranks of the men of enterprise and diligence who are leaving their impress upon the commercial and industrial history of the city.
Dayton numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred December 6, 1870. The public schools afforded him a part of his educational privileges and he also attended private schools but was only thirteen years of age when he left the schoolroom. He went upon a farm in Montgomery county with a brother at the age of nine years. After remaining for three years amid rural surroundings he returned to Dayton and for a year was in school. Then he again spent six months upon the farm but the city proved a stronger attraction for him and for seven months he was employed in a Dayton planing mill. At the expiration of that period he learned the Journeyman tailor's trade and then Merchant Tailor's trade, and the ability which he gained enabled him in 1896 to embark in business on his own account, for as an employee he had been able to command good wages and had also become thoroughly familiar with the business. For thirteen years he has now conducted a merchant tailoring establishment and has been accorded a liberal and increasing patronage. In 1905 he extended his efforts to another line, for on the organization of the National Oil Pump & Tank Company he was elected its president and has since remained as the chief executive officer in control of its affairs. He is likewise a stockholder in the Charles A. P. Barrett Paint Company.
Mr. Boesch was married in Dayton, in 1896, to Miss Louisa J. Lukaswitz and unto them have been born five children: Horace J., William J., Joseph R., Katherine and Robert C. In his political views Mr. Boesch is a democrat but not bitterly partisan or offensively aggressive. He votes for the candidates of the organization because he believes in its principles and feels that its platform contains the best elements of good government. In religious belief he is a Catholic and belongs to Emanuel church. He is also connected with the Knights of Columbus and with the Gesellen Veriens--an association that indicates an acknowledgment and appreciation of his German ancestry and the privileges to which he is entitled by reason thereof.
From History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County Ohio, Volume II, by Rev. A. W. Drury, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909