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C.J. LAUGHLIN, JR., “TOWN BUILDER”
( From the Realty Review)
[People’s Press, 17 December 1912]
With an unshakable belief in the potential future of Welland; sustained by years of experience in community development, C.J. Laughlin, Jr., president of the Laughlin Realty Co., has played an all-important part in the wonderful growth of the “Canal City” as an industrial and residential centre.
It is an inspiration to any man to study Mr. Laughlin at close range. His physical bigness, his keen power of perception, his genial disposition, and other sterling qualities clearly indicate that he is the right man in the right place.
Like all big men, Mr. Laughlin is modestly personified, when it comes to talking about himself, and it was only by intimating that a recital of his early experiences in the realty field might benefit others, that he was induced to describe how, as a railway clerk in a small Ohio town, he had sold his one cherished possession, a horse and buggy, in order to purchase fifty feet of land, and had then borrowed enough money to erect two small houses on his property, from the sale of which he had realized a substantial profit, substantial enough as he expressed it, to equal an entire year’s salary.
The success of Mr. Laughlin’s first venture aroused his progressive spirit and, resigning his position as railway clerk, he determined to devote his energies to realty development. How well he carried out his resolution is attested to by his activities in Florida, Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, California, and other American States, which had earned for him his reputation as a “Town Builder” before he came to Canada.
It means something to any community to have attracted a type of man such as this reality expert, whose one dominating policy is to make money for his clients through the development and selling of high-class subdivisions only; a feature which is very much in evidence in Welland, as was observed by the writer, and it is of more than passing interest to note the absence of brass band methods in connection with the unprecedented growth which has marked the development of Welland, a growth by the way, which Mr. Laughlin himself thinks remarkable, as he states that never in his experience can he recall an instance when industrial and general community development has been so pronounced as in Welland.
As a producer of results, C.J. Laughlin Jr., has proven an invaluable asset to Welland. The Metal Chemicals Co., one of Welland’s largest industries, located there through his efforts, and he has been instrumental in bringing other large plants to town.
The local trolley service stands as a monument to his activities. He has stimulated interest in civic pride and has, brought to the city a goodly percentage of its population. His associates in the Laughlin Realty Company of which he is president, are among the largest manufacturers of Canada.
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