Kasjens & Entwistle are successfully engaged in the operation of a plumbing and heating plant at 421 Hamilton boulevard, Peoria, where they have been located since establishing their business on the 1st of January, 1909. They are both skilled mechanics and practical business men, whose general experience and thorough training in their line well qualifies them to undertake the development of an enterprise of this nature. They make a specialty of installing steam and hot water heat and pneumatic water supply in country and suburban residences and are being favored with as many orders as they are able to fill with their present force. Although they have only been engaged in this business for three years, it has been their fortune to be awarded some very good contracts, which they have filled so satisfactorily that one order resulted in the next. Their work has been satisfactory and they have every reason to feel encouraged.
Theodore KASJENS, senior partner of the firm, was born in Peoria, on July 27, 1879, and is a son of Jacob U. KASJENS, a car carpenter, for many years employed at the corner of Pekin and Union streets. In the acquirement of his education he attended the old Douglas school until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered the blacksmith department of the carriage shop of William HUPE to learn the trade. Three years later he withdrew from this position and found employment in the Holdas box factory, remaining there until 1898. In the latter year he became identified with the plumbing and heating departments of the brass foundry & Heating Company, continuing in their employ until 1909. Here he was given the advantages of a very thorough training and excellent experience, the value of which was greatly increased by his previous connections. On the 1st of January, 1900, he withdrew from the service of the latter company and became associated with William H. ENTWISTLE in purchasing the plumbing department of his employers, which they have ever since conducted with constantly increasing success.
Mr. KASJENS is not married and makes his home with a brother. Fraternally he is identified with Baker Camp, No. 843 M.W.A., and in politics he is a republican. He is well known here, being connected with some of the city's early pioneers, among them Theodore GARLINGS. Who is his uncle and one of the oldest residents of Peoria. Mr. KASJENS is a man of sound principles and the highest integrity, who from day to day strives to discharge his duties to the best of his ability and his efforts are being crowned with corresponding success.
William ENTWISTLE, the other member of the firm of Kasjens and Entwistle, was born in Peoria on the 12th of April, 1882, and is a son of William ENTWISTLE, an old resident of the city and for many years a locomotive engineer in the service of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company.
Reared at home, in the acquirement of his education, William H. ENTWISTLE attended the public schools until he was thirteen years of age, when he became a wage earner. Until 1897 he was employed in the store of Schipper and Block. Leaving their service he worked for a year in a bicycle manufacturing shop and at the end of that time became identified with the Brass Foundry & Heating Company. He first entered their plumbing department, going from there into the machine shop while he was later transferred to the brass department. Having mastered the details of each of these departments he was put in the office remaining there until the 1st of January, 1900, when he and Mr. KASJENS purchased the plumbing department of this company. Mr. ENTWISTLE, like his partner, is a skilled mechanic of much experience and is in every way well qualified to successfully operate the business he has acquired.
In this city on the 10th of September, 1904, Mr. ENTWISTLE was united in marriage to Miss Margaret DILLON, a daughter of Matthew DILLON, and they have become the parents of two sons, of five and three years respectively.
Fraternally Mr. ENTWISTLE is identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America and he votes with the republican party. He is an ambitious and enterprising man of progressive ideas and sound judgment who is making a creditable record in his business and is justified in taking pride in his achievements, both as a workman and as a representative of the local industrial interests.
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