Harry Soref
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Harry E. Soref (1887–1957) was an American locksmith and businessman. He was the founder of the Master Lock company.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Soref was born in 1887 Bilozirka, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire,[2] later immigrating to the United States.[1] In 1921, he founded the Master Lock company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[3] The company built locks based on Soref's designs using laminated steel to build strong yet inexpensive locks; he received over 80 patents for his designs.[1]
Soref and his wife Bertha had five children.[1] He died in 1957 in Phoenix, Arizona, aged 70.[4]
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Categories:
- American businesspeople in manufacturing
- Locksmiths
- 20th-century metalsmiths
- American metalsmiths
- 1887 births
- 1957 deaths
- Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
- 19th-century American inventors
- People from Ternopil Oblast
- Businesspeople from Milwaukee
- American business biography, 19th-century birth stubs
- American inventor stubs