In 1890, as George Tinnerman grew financially successful, he and his family moved from their house on Fulton, which abutted the Tinnerman stove and range manufacturing plant, to a more fashionable address on the northwest corner of Franklin Boulevard and Gordon Street (now West 65th Street). George became so successful in selling his new steel stoves that, in 1913, he closed his hardware store and began to exclusively manufacture stoves and ranges. In 1875, according to his son Albert, George became dissatisfied with the cumbersome cast iron stoves and invented the first steel range-a forerunner of today's range stoves. Among the products George sold were cast iron stoves. In 1868, he opened a hardware store on Lorain Avenue-just east of its intersection with Fulton Road. Like his father who was a wheelright, George entered the trades but as a tinner. In 1847, the year before the 1848 Revolutions which shook central Europe from Vienna to Paris, George immigrated to America with his parents Henry and Sophia Tinnerman. George August Tinnerman was born in Bavaria in 1845. And perhaps there are only a few, if any, left in the neighborhood who remember that, before it was the Kaufman Funeral Home, the grand old house on the corner of Franklin Boulevard and West 65th Street belonged to George August Tinnerman, a German immigrant who launched one of the great industrial enterprises in the history of Cleveland. Only the older residents of the neighborhood remember that up until the mid-1960s the Kaufman Funeral Home stood on this corner. Adults in the neighborhood remember that it used to be where the old Pick-N-Pay grocery store stood. School children walking past the northwest corner of Franklin Boulevard and West 65th Street will someday remember it as where the Rite Aid neighborhood drugstore was located.
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