Sebastian County ArArchives Biographies.....Koller, Erwin 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

ERWIN KOLLER.
    The development and upbuilding of every community depends not alone upon one
line of activity but upon the combined efforts of many men of enterprise who
control various phases of business, all of which are essential to the welfare
and well-being of a community. In this connection, therefore, mention should be
made of Erwin Roller, who is the senior partner in the Koller-McKim Plumbing
Company of Fort Smith. Mr. Koller is a native of Switzerland and spent the first
fourteen years of his life in the land of the Alps, after which he came to
America, attracted hy the broader business opportunities which he believed he
might secure on this side of the Atlantic. Arriving in the new world in 1884, he
worked for a time in a grocery store and afterward learned the machinist's trade
at Fort Smith. He was employed for a period in St. Louis and then returned to
Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he secured a position with the Electric Light &
Power Company. Each experience that came to him brought to him wider knowledge
of business conditions and activities and step by step he has advanced,
utilizing fully the opportunities which have been his. In 1907 he established a
gas appliance store and in 1910 formed a partnership with Paul McKim, opening a
plumbing department in connection with the other business. Their present
establishment is located at No. 16 North Seventh street, where they have one of
the most complete display rooms of its kind in this part of the state. They
handle gas appliances, furnaces and plumbing fixtures, do all kinds of plumbing
and steamfitting and are agents for the Round Oak furnaces and also for the
American radiators. Their business has assumed extensive and gratifying
proportions. They are expert workmen in their line and they have thus secured
many important contracts of this character and have rendered valuable service in
the field of their chosen labor.

    Mr. Koller was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Graber and they have become
parents of three children, as follows: Cecilea, Edwin and Robert.

    Mr. Koller has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the
new world, for here he found the opportunities which he sought and in their
utilization has steadily advanced. His position is now a gratifying one in
connection with the industrial and commercial interests of Fort Smith and
whatever success he has achieved is attributable entirely to his own labors and
careful management.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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