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John Burnside Started Heating Company Fifteen
Years Ago.
Niles Daily Times June
17, 1939
Fifteen years ago this month the Burnside Heating
Company was started in Niles. It had its beginnings in a little
shop on Linden Avenue and remained in that location until three
years ago when it moved to its modern rooms at 51 State Street.
John Burnside, the owner of the business, has been
in the heating business for the past eighteen years. He took
his first training from the Skinner Furnace Company in Cleveland,
then worked in this business in Warren for three years prior
to opening his own shop here in Niles.
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Burnside Heating was located in
this building at 148 North Main Street. Photograph
ca 1960.
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As
another phase of his business Mr. Burnside does repair work on
all makes of heating systems and installs and repairs roofing
and spouting. He installed the tile roof on the Mt. Carmel Church
and Parsonage which is to date the largest tile roofing construction
in Niles.
Mr. Burnside, in addition to taking care of his
regular business has found time to invent and patent a rural gas
generator called the Burnside Rural Gas Generator which is designed
to bring the comfort and convenience of gas to those living beyond
the limits of the city gas mains.
Mr. Burnside expresses great confidence in the
future of air-conditioning in Niles and expresses the belief it
will not be many years before no home will be without this, the
most modern of all heating and ventilating plants.
Three and a half years ago, John Burnside’s son, Walter,
entered the firm, upon completion of his college education, which
included engineering and heating courses at Miami University,
Michigan State University and Youngstown College.
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Grandmother Burnside standing on
front porch on Linden Avenue.
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Niles Daily Times July
1940
Mr. and Mrs. C.G. Hoskins, Mesopotamia,
announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter,
Hope Elinor, to Walter D. Burnside, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Burnside, Jr. of Niles. The wedding is planned for
Sunday, August 25, the birthday anniversary of both Miss Hoskins
and Mr. Burnside.
Hope and Walter would later have two sons, (Walter)
Denny and Barry and a daughter, Bonnie.They
would rent a house on Orchard Avenue next to the Ash Path and
later purchase a home on Hartzell Avenue.
Denny (1942-2022) graduated from The Ohio State
University in 1968 with a Bachelor’s and Master’s
degree. While at OSU, he won many awards from the university,
IEEE and AMTA. He also won the Distinguished Public Service Award
from NASA which is the highest form of recognition for a non-government
employee. In addition, he was named Emeritus Professor which he
still held. In 2010, he founded NeWave Sensor Solutions, an RFID
innovation small business. While working at OSU he and Robert
Burkholder created a novel RFID antenna, which they patented
and formed the basis of NSS. |
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Niles
Daily Times newspaper advertisement for Burnside Heating Company
located at 51 East State Street, published December 12, 1942. |
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